[ecoop-info] CfPart: Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'07)

[Peter Pietzuch]

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                             CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                     Inaugural International Conference on
                  Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2007)

                       Toronto, Canada, June 20-22, 2007
                          http://debs.msrg.utoronto.ca
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In cooperation with:
             USENIX, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGSOFT and ACM SIGMOD
Sponsorship from: CA Labs (Main Sponsor), HP Labs (Silver Sponsor), and MiTACS
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      *** NOTE: The early registration deadline is on May 25, 2007 ***

We invite you to attend the Inaugural International Conference on Distributed
Event-Based Systems (DEBS) to be held from June 20-22, 2007 in Toronto,
Canada.  The DEBS Conference is following on the success of the previous five
DEBS Workshops held from 2002 to 2006 in companion with major conferences
sponsored by IEEE and ACM such as ICDCS, ICSE, and SIGMOD/PODS.

Event-based systems have been established in industry and research for many
years.  They are now gaining increasing momentum as witnessed by current
efforts in areas including event-driven architectures, business process
management and modeling, Grid computing, Web services notifications, and
message-oriented middleware.  DEBS wants to serve as a focal point to this
vital, fast-growing community.

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Technical Program
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The conference will feature a strong, single-track technical program
consisting of:

   * Keynotes and invited speakers:
     * "Mythbusters: Event Stream Processing Versus Complex Event Processing"
       Tim Bass, TIBCO Software, USA
     * "Towards a Theory of Events"
       K. Mani Chandy, California Institute of Technology, USA
     * "Semantic Approach to Event Processing"
       Opher Etzion, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
     * "Architect's Dream or Developer's Nightmare?"
       Gregor Hohpe, Google, USA
     * "The Little and Large of Publish/Subscribe - Ever the Twain Shall Meet?"
       Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, Scotland

   * 14 full and 10 short research papers covering a wide-range of aspects of
     distributed event-based systems including:
     * Peer-to-peer and overlay networks
     * Routing and matching
     * Concepts, models and software engineering techniques
     * Quality-of-Service and security aspects
     * Complex event processing, composite events and event streams
     * Mobile and pervasive computing and sensor networks using events
     * Applications for event-based systems

   * 5 industry and demo presentations
   * A panel discussion

The full conference program with a list of accepted papers is available at:
   http://www.debs.msrg.utoronto.ca/program.shtml

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Conference Registration and Accommodation
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Early Registration Deadline:           May 25, 2007
Late Registration Deadline:            June 11, 2007
On-Site Registration:                  after June 11, 2007

The registration page with rates and further information can be found at:
   http://www.debs.msrg.utoronto.ca/registration.shtml

To encourage broad student participation, the conference offers a special low
student registration rate and affordable student accommodation.

The conference will be held at the University of Toronto, Canada.  For
information about the conference venue and accommodation please refer to
   http://www.debs.msrg.utoronto.ca/accommodation.shtml

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Organizers and Program Committee
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General Chair:      Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
PC Chair:           Gero Muehl, Berlin Univ. of Technology, Germany
Organizing Chair:   Michael A. Jaeger, Berlin Univ. of Technology, Germany
Publicity Chair:    Peter R. Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK
Demo Chair:         Annika Hinze, Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand

For the full program committee please refer to:
   http://debs.msrg.utoronto.ca/organizers.shtml