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Subject: CFP: Distributed Event-based Systems (DEBS 2002)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:29:37 +0200
From: Ludger Fiege fiege@RBG.INFORMATIK.TU-DARMSTADT.DE
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Call for Papers
International Workshop
                  on Distributed Event-Based Systems
                              (DEBS'02)
http://www.gkec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/rebeca/debs/
July 2nd and 3rd, 2002
                           Vienna, Austria
In Conjunction with:
  The 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
                            (ICDCS-2002 )
SCOPE
Research on event notification services, event-based and publish /
subcribe systems has recently gained increased attention. It has been
recognized that loosely coupled asynchronous communication mechanisms
are necessary to build complex distributed systems. While comparable
mechanisms are already used in existing products such as ERP,
application servers and databases, event services have been
incorporated into major middleware platforms, including CORBA, J2EE,
and COM+.
Although these services provide some basic functionality, there are
still many open problems, ranging from design and integration to
scalability issues.  Technical solutions that increase scalability,
such as event filtering and composition mechanisms, must be backed
with engineering solutions providing models of coordination, programming
abstractions, usage patterns, and administrative support.
Furthermore, robust enterprise solutions will be integrated with
legacy systems in heterogeneous environments, raising data management
and security issues.  Future application scenarios, such as web-based
services and support for mobility, will stress all of these topics.
Research on event-based systems is dispersed among different areas of
computer science (software engineering, programming languages,
distributed systems, data management, networking, etc.), and
event-based concepts are applied in commercial software. This workshop
aims at bringing together people from these disciplines in order to
present the state of the art, current research and to develop a joint
vision on future design, engineering and applications of distributed
event-based systems.
DEBS'02 aims to gather participants from academia and industry that
work in areas related to event-based systems.  This workshop will
provide a forum to meet and discuss technical issues of distributed
event-based systems, their integration with existing services, and the
problems related to engineering event-based systems.
Suggested topics for research and position papers include, but are not
limited to:
* Taxonomies to characterize event-based systems
   * Event models (e.g. representations, subscription languages)
   * Functionality and APIs of event services and publish / subscribe
     systems
   * Design, architecture, and engineering of event-based applications
   * Programming language support and integration (e.g. typing,
     abstractions)
   * Algorithms for distributed event processing
     (e.g. filtering, routing, composition, ordering)
   * Push-based event dissemination mechanisms
   * Event notification protocols and delivery mechanisms
   * Efficient use of ip-multicast and publish/subscribe communication
     techniques
   * Real-time distributed event systems
   * Performance evaluation and scalability analysis
   * Integration with standard middleware (e.g. CORBA, J2EE, COM+)
   * Integration with databases and storage systems (e.g. active
     database, transactions processing systems, querying event logs)
   * Fault-tolerant event distribution
   * Security
   * Quality of service and its specification
   * Support of mobile devices (e.g. temporarily connected, limited
     memory/communication bandwidth)
   * Case studies of challenging applications and requirement
     analysis
IMPORTANT DATES
Papers due:                     December 12, 2001
Notification of acceptance:     February 25, 2002
Final papers due:               March 24, 2002
Conference date:                July 2nd and 3rd, 2002
LOCATION
Vienna, Austria.
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Submitted papers should describe original, unpublished research or
experience and be no longer than 8 pages in IEEE proceedings style.
All papers must be written in English and will be reviewed by members
of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be included in the
proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one
author of an accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop in
order to present the work. Moreover, workshop participants must
register for the main conference, i.e., ICDCS-2002.
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of
the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is
to guarantee a fair double blind review process. A cover page
including paper title, author(s) name(s), address(es), five keywords,
and a paper abstract should also be sent in a separate
document. Submissions should adhere to IEEE style and be made
electronically in PDF or postscript (no hardcopy) and sent to
debs-submission@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de by email.
The program of the workshop will consist of a set of paper
presentations and discussions.
For further details, contact DEBS'02 organizers at
debs@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de.
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
* Jean Bacon
     University of Cambridge
     Computer Laboratory
     United Kingdom
     email:   Jean.Bacon@cl.cam.ac.uk
* Ludger Fiege
     Darmstadt University of Technology
     Germany
     email:   fiege@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de
* Rachid Guerraoui
     Distributed Programming Laboratory
     Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
     Switzerland
     email:   rachid.guerraoui@epfl.ch
* Arno Jacobsen
     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
     Department of Computer Science
     University of Toronto
     Canada
     email:   jacobsen@eecg.toronto.edu
* Gero Mühl
     Darmstadt University of Technology
     Germany
     email:   gmuehl@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
   * Sumeer Bhola, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
   * Alejandro Buchmann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
   * Antonio Carzaniga, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
   * Patrick Eugster, University Göteborg, Sweden
   * Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
   * Alfonso Fuggetta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
   * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
   * Dieter Gawlick, Oracle, USA
   * Christoph Liebig, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
   * François Llirbat, INRIA, France
   * Ken Moody, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
   * George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
   * Joao Pereira, INESC, Portugal
   * David Rosenblum, University of California, Irvine, USA
For further details, contact DEBS'02 organizer at
debs@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de
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