SCOPE

Research on event notification services, event-based and publish / subscribe 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

We explicitly solicit industrial participation, presenting experiences with event-based systems, the use and provision of event models in existing products, and the backgrounds of commercially available event systems.

IMPORTANT DATES

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AUTHOR INFORMATION and SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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.

DEBS uses an anonymous, double-blinded review process. The paper itself should begin with the title and an abstract, but should not include the names or addresses of the authors, and self-reference should be in the third person. An additional cover page that includes paper title, author(s) name(s), address(es), keywords, and a paper abstract should be sent in a separate document. Submissions should adhere to IEEE style and be made electronically in PDF or postscript (no hardcopy). Submissions will be handled via the submission web page at http://www.gkec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/rebeca/debs/submit.html.

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
• Edward Cobb, BEA Systems, 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
• Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
• Joe Sventek, Agilent, UK
• Robert Tolksdorf, TU Berlin, Germany