Dagstuhl Seminar on Event Processing (Dagstuhl, Germany)

Event Processing is one of the emerging disciplines in computer science as well as in the state of the practice. Event processing is endorsed by analysts and some of the leading vendors as one of the emerging styles of programming and software architecture (e.g. EDA -- Event Driven Architecture), the event-driven style. Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is emerging also as a variant of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that is being supported by multiple vendors. Event Processing systems are widely used in enterprise integration applications, ranging from time-critical systems, agile process integration systems, managements of services and processes, delivery of information services, and awareness to business situations. There is a range of event processing middleware capabilities, including publish-subscribe services, which have been incorporated into standards such as CORBA and JMS, and into commercial systems, mediation services such as event transformation, aggregation, split and composition, and event pattern detection (complex event processing).

DEBS'07 (Toronto, Canada)

Gartner Event Processing Summit (Orlando, FL, USA)

The inaugural Gartner Event Processing Summit is the first conference designed to help you understand and leverage Event Processing (EP) and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and turn real-time data streams into better, faster decisions.

This event is a unique collaboration between Gartner analysts and some of the most experienced practitioners and innovators in the industry. Come join us in September as we explore how to improve agility, develop better insight into business conditions and gain a competitive advantage.

EDA-PS'07 (The Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

11th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007) (Annapolis, MD USA)

The EDOC Conference is the key annual event in enterprise computing. EDOC conferences address the full range of engineering technologies and methods contributing to enterprise distributed application systems. EDOC 2007 will be the eleventh event in the series of conferences, which since 1997 has brought together leading computer science researchers, IT decision makers, IT architects, solution designers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions. Today the creation, operation and evolution of enterprise computing systems comprises challenges that range from high-level requirements and policy modeling to the deployment and maintenance of solutions in and across customer businesses. Enterprise computing is based on a wide (and ever growing) range of methods, models, tools and technologies. The resulting applications also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains and industry segments, from electronic and mobile commerce to real-time business applications for collaborating enterprises. In recent years, technologies related to business processes integration, management, execution and monitoring have become one of the top areas of interest in enterprise computing. The EDOC Conference emphasizes the integration and management of enterprise computing research and development results, fostering an enterprise and social organizational engineering approach that can address and relate business, application, middleware and technical levels. The themes of openness and distributed computing, based on services, components and objects, provide a useful and unifying conceptual thread for this purpose.

Middleware 2007 (Newport Beach, California, USA)

The Middleware conference is a forum for the discussion of important innovations and recent advances in the design and construction of middleware. Middleware is distributed-systems software that resides between the applications and the underlying operating systems, network protocol stacks, and hardware. Its primary role is to functionally bridge the gap between application programs and the lower-level hardware and software infrastructure in order to coordinate how application components are connected and how they interoperate.

Engineering Large-Scale Distributed Systems (ELSDS) (Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil)

Social phenomena like YouTube and Flickr are incontrovertible evidence of users' migration to a new Web overwhelmed by multimedia. In fact, images, videos, music, and other kinds of multimedia objects today constitute about 99% of the Web. Nonetheless, users' chances of a successful search in such a large portion of information are not proportionally supported. Web search is dominated by giants like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft that exploit centralized text-only indices enriched by an endless toolbox of smart ranking algorithms. Their interest in riding this new tide is witnessed by the acquisition of both Flickr and YouTube. On the other hand, content-based search for image, music and videos has been deeply studied in the last years but it is not yet adopted by the industry because of its cost.

At the same time users are becoming more and more active. There is no doubt that the so called "Web 2.0" marked a new approach of generating and distributing Web content itself, characterized by communities, decentralization of authority, freedom to share and re-use. It is fascinating the opportunity to develop distributed search engines taking advantage of distributed resources controlled by communities, interest groups, single users or providers.

In the last few years Peer-to-Peer systems have been widely used to overcome scalability issues of centralized solutions. P2P algorithms offer robust, scalable and highly available ways of exploiting large pools of storage and computational resources. The approach has been shown to be effective for tasks such as file sharing. In addition, academic research started contributing new insights and paving new promising outlooks for P2P networks. P2P seems the solution that can make a large multimedia information retrieval system able to scale to repositories as large as the Web is. Also, P2P is supposed to lead users to freedom from advertisement-generating, commercial and centralized web search engines. Users interests are not the same of web search engines.

Special Track on Middleware Engineering (ME) (Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil)

Research in middleware systems has evolved from simple client server models to distributed systems, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, mobile devices, service oriented computing, grid computing, agent based computing, smart devices, and sensors. Each of the above areas poses its own unique challenges in the design, development and deployment of middleware, its components and applications using such middleware.

The main objective of the middleware engineering track is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in middleware systems with topics ranging from different areas such as distributed computing, grid computing, service oriented computing, pervasive computing, P2P computing, agent based systems and sensor networks under one roof with an aim of encouraging exchange of ideas and experiences among these diverse communities. We solicit papers dealing with design, development and deployment of middleware and its systems. We are also interested in specific components of middleware systems, the way they interact with other modules, components design and development, models of the components, middleware system issues and also novel applications using middleware systems.

Data Streams Track (Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil)

For the past twenty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2008 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, and is hosted by the the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) and the Federal University of Ceara (UFC).

PerSeNS 2007 (Hong Kong)

Thanks to wireless sensor networks, pervasive computing environments are becoming a reality. Wireless sensor networks are aggregates of sensor nodes into sophisticated sensing, computational and communication infrastructures. These new networks are having a significant impact (and promises to have even more) on a wide array of applications ranging from military, to scientific, to industrial, to health-care, to domestic, establishing ubiquitous computing that will pervade society and redefine the way in which we live and work.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of sensor networks are solicited. Papers describing prototype and experimental implementations and deployment of sensor networks and systems are particularly welcome.

The Second International Workshop on Scalable Stream Processing Systems (SSPS'08) (Nantes, France)

In today's world of pervasive networks and ubiquitous computing, people and organizations often rely on time-critical tasks that require accessing data from dynamic information sources and generating responses derived from on-line processing of data in near real-time. In many application domains information sources are increasingly taking the form of data streams, i.e. time ordered series of events or readings. Examples include stock tickers in financial services, link statistics in networking, sensor readings in environmental monitoring, and surveillance data in Homeland Security, to name a few. The ever increasing rates of data stream sources and the stringent response time requirements of stream processing applications force a paradigm shift in how we process data, moving away from the "store and then process" model of database management systems towards the "on-the-fly processing" model of emerging stream processing systems (SPSs). Due to the large and growing number of users, queries, and information sources, as well as the high aggregate rate of data streams distributed across remote sources, scalability becomes a key challenge, necessitating the development of architectures, protocols, and algorithms that can support building highly scalable, available, and reliable SPSs.

This workshop aims at promoting novel research in the area of stream processing systems, looking for bringing together research ideas, concepts, and techniques from the fields of databases, information systems, and distributed systems.

EuroSys08 (Glasgow, Scotland)

EuroSys 2008 is organized by EuroSys, the European Chapter of SIGOPS, sponsored by ACM SIGOPS, in cooperation with the British Computer Society (BCS). EuroSys welcomes submissions and attendance from all over the world and aims to bring together researchers from different areas of computer systems, who are otherwise spread over multiple conferences.

As a result, EuroSys 2008 will follow the pattern established by the previous EuroSys Conferences, in 2006 and 2007, by seeking papers on all aspects of computer systems. EuroSys 2008 will also include a number of workshops to allow junior and senior members of the systems community to explore leading-edge topics and ideas before they are presented at a conference.

Second Workshop on Event-based Semantics (St. Louis, MO)

The theme of the workshop is Event-based semantics for embedded and critical systems. There is a shift towards openness, distribution and federation for real time, multi-scale, embedded and critical systems. All this still with a need for certification, resulting in a major verification challenge. The notion of Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is adding new dimenions to these challenges. Event-based semantics is a promising approach to support specification and verification of such systems.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together people working on semantics and people from the systems community. The idea is to stimulate discussion and exchange of ideas leading to a better understanding of the rich spectrum of notions of event and how they might be used in the design and development of this new class of systems, as well as to serve as a basis for system analysis and certification.

ICSE 2008 (Leipzig, Germany)

The International Conference on Software Engineering is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of software engineering.

8th International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems (NOTRE 2008) (Lyon, France)

The International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems (NOTERE) is a bilingual (French/English) forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present the recent advances and latest research result in the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms, applications and architectures. Following the past conferences in this series (Pau, Montreal, Paris, Saadia, Gatineau, Toulouse, Marrakech), the 8th edition of NOTERE will be Held in Lyon in France.

Software has been evolving from pre-defined, monolithic, centralized architectures to increasingly decentralized, distributed, dynamically composed federations of components. New applications, such as global supply-chain management and complex health-care systems, impose major research challenges in integration, interoperability, discovery, negotiation, collaboration, and optimization. Distributed and mobile collaboration technologies are beginning to allow people to move across organizational boundaries and to interact within and across organizations as well as communities, creating virtual communities or so-called "social networks". These virtual systems require sophisticated collaboration functionalities. Service-oriented architectures are emerging as a possible solution to build smart networks and enable grid and on-demand computing. The fast evolution of wireless technologies drives demand to extend interaction between users and mobile devices to the interaction with objects and services in the everyday world, opening thus the opportunity for context-aware and ubiquitous computing. Wireless Internet, mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks are seen as new platforms for future distributed and pervasive systems, exacerbating in turn the problems of privacy and security. Software processes are evolving from pre-specified sequential work-flows to decentralized and multi-organization collaborative endeavors. Business environments demand increased flexibility, dependability, fault-tolerance, and autonomy of involved heterogeneous systems.

DAIS 2008 (Oslo, Norway)

The 8th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) is part of the federated conferences DisCoTec (Distributed Computing Techniques), together with the 10th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) and the 10th IFIP International Conference Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS). It will be organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oslo, Norway.

The 4th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '08) (Santorini Island, Greece)

Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments, which makes them immensely useful for data collection and analysis. The focus of the conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, and systematic design techniques and tools), but networking-related contributions that support high level abstractions are also welcome.

ICDCS 2008 (Beijing, China)

ICDCS is an IEEE Computer Society sponsored premier conference with a wide coverage of topics in Distributed Computing. It has a long history of significant achievements and worldwide visibility. The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of distributed and parallel computing. The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of distributed and parallel computing.

DEBS'08 (Rome, Italy)

The 2nd International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) is following on the success of first edition held in 2007 and the previous five editions of the DEBS workshops held from 2002 to 2006 in companion with major conferences such as ICDCS, ICSE, and SIGMOD/PODS.

The objectives of the DEBS Conference are to provide a forum dedicated to the dissemination of original research, the discussion of practical insights, and the reporting on relevant experience relating to event-based computing that was previously scattered across several scientific and professional communities.

The scope of the conference covers all topics relevant to event-based computing ranging from those discussed in related disciplines (e.g. coordination, software engineering, peer-to-peer systems, Grid computing and streaming databases), to domain-specific topics of event-based computing (e.g. workflow management systems, mobile computing, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, sensors networks, user interfaces, component integration, Web services and embedded systems), to enterprise related topics (e.g. complex event detection, enterprise application integration, real time enterprises and Web services notifications).

The conference also aims at providing a forum for academia and industry to exchange ideas, for example, through industry papers and demo papers.

RuleML-2008 (Orlando, Florida, USA)

The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications.

RDDS '08 (Monterrey, Mexico)

Middleware has become a popular technology for building distributed systems from tiny sensor networks to large scale peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Support such as asynchronous and multipoint communication is well suited for constructing reactive distributed computing applications over wired and wireless networks environments. While middleware infrastructures exhibit attractive features from an application development perspective (e.g., portability, interoperability, adaptability etc.), they are often lacking in robustness and reliability. Distributed systems become increasingly large and complex, thereby compounding many reliability problems that necessitate different strategies and solutions.

For example, in the inherently distributed nature of P2P networks, the most common solution to reliability is to take advantage of redundancy. The same task can be initially assigned to multiple peers. In file sharing applications, data can be replicated across many peers. In messaging applications, messages can be simultaneously sent along multiple paths. Redundancy may not be appropriate, however, in resource-constrained environments such as wireless ad hoc networks where more lightweight alternatives are needed. Some systems even rely on autonomic management technologies inspired by nature and biological organisms to cope with the challenges of scale, complexity, heterogeneity and unpredictability. In any case, the system model (e.g., communication, failures) and application requirements are key factors in the design of reliably mechanisms.

Among different aspects of reliability issues, this workshop focuses on reliability in decentralized distributed systems. While decentralized architectures are gaining adoption is most application domains, there is still some reluctance in deploying them in systems with high dependability requirements. This has led, over the past few years, to several academic and industrial research efforts aimed at correcting this deficiency. For the most part, these research efforts have been independent of each other, and have often focused on specific pieces of the dependability puzzle. Our aim, in this Workshop, is to bring researchers and practitioners together, to further our insights on reliable decentralized architectures and to investigate collectively the challenges that remain.

Middleware 2008 (Leuven, Belgium)

The Middleware conference is a forum for the discussion of important innovations and recent advances in the design, construction and uses of middleware. Middleware is distributed-systems software that resides between the applications and the underlying operating systems, network protocol stacks, and hardware. Its primary role is to functionally bridge the gap between application programs and the lower-level hardware and software infrastructure in order to coordinate how application components are connected and how they interoperate.

Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 9th International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research and technology in 2008. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for future computing and communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality technical program, invited speakers, an industrial track, poster and demo presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops.

The conference also strongly encourages submission of industry-focused and use case studies; full papers should be submitted to the main program, where they will be reviewed using appropriate criteria (e.g. emphasizing experience and system evolution), and accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings. Additionally, short industry-focused papers may be submitted to a special industrial track; accepted short papers will be presented at the conference and published in the ACM Digital Library. Details on the industrial track will be available shortly. Note that submissions to the main program may indicate a willingness to be referred to the industrial track if a paper is not accepted to the main program.

ROADS'08 (Madrid, Spain)

The 3rd International Workshop on Real Overlays And Distributed Systems (ROADS) will bring together researchers in the systems and networking communities to engage in a lively discussion of new challenges in building large-scale distributed systems and networking overlays. ROADS is a place to share new experiences, and work in progress, with an emphasis on systems that actually run in the wide-area Internet.

The Real in ROADS refers to systems that are deployed on a real platform for a period of time. They might be existing widely deployed systems, new research prototypes, or more permanent services, but submissions should address technical challenges they present for designers and researchers. We also welcome papers that explore the extent to which results retain their validity when moving from simulation (e.g., ModelNet) to emulation (e.g., Emulab), and/or to more realistic deployment settings (e.g., PlanetLab).

The workshop program will include invited speakers and presentations of peer-reviewed papers. Papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of stimulating a lively discussion, and technical merit. We encourage submissions of early work containing novel and interesting ideas. We envision ROADS as a forum where participants can receive early feedback on the design and implementation of systems that may later form the core of submissions to conferences such as CoNEXT, SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, OSDI, MobiCom, or MobiSys.

ACM CoNEXT 2008 (Madrid, Spain)

ACM CoNEXT 2008 is a major forum for future networking technologies. Previous CoNEXT Conferences have successfully encouraged original, long-term studies and contributed to the integration of networking research on an international level.

The 4th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2008), will be hosted by the University Carlos III of Madrid. The conference will be a major forum for presentations and discussions of novel networking technologies, which are set to shape the future of Internetworking. We strive to open informative and stimulating debates between distinct international research communities. The conference is single-track and will feature a high-quality technical program, with significant opportunities for individual and small-group technical and social interactions. The main conference will also be preceded by three one-day workshops.