Distributed Event-Based Systems: An Emerging Community

by Peter Pietzuch • Imperial College London, Gero Mühl • Berlin University of Technology,
Ludger Fiege • Siemens Corporate Technology.

Events and messaging have been in use in industry for years. With the advent of service-oriented and event-driven architectures, however, the eventing paradigm becomes a central building block of business IT.

To support event-based systems’ growth, we’re organizing the Inaugural International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems in Toronto in June this year. The DEBS conference builds on the success of the five DEBS workshops held from 2002 to 2006 in conjunction with major conferences such as the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, the International Conference on Software Engineering, and the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management Data. By establishing DEBS as an independent conference, we hope to reach a broader audience from academia, industry, and standardization bodies. Here we look at why we believe the time is ripe for a DEBS conference. Read the announcement