Objective

The ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event‐Based Systems (DEBS) is the premier venue for academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research in distributed and event-based computing and data processing. DEBS 2025 will provide a forum for original research, practical insights, and experiences in distributed and event-based systems, with a focus on emerging trends and new challenges in the field.

We solicit high-quality submissions across a range of topics, with different submission options to reflect the nature of each contribution. All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer review process.

Scope

The DEBS conference covers a broad range of topics in distributed and event-based computing for various application domains and computing environments. The conference aims to present novel solutions for collecting, detecting, processing, analyzing, and responding to events through distributed middleware, systems, and platforms. DEBS 2025 welcomes submissions focusing on 1) Models, Architectures, Programming, and Query Support, 2) Systems and Software, and 3) Applications and Use-Cases on the following topics:

Scalable data stream processing and complex event processing.

Dataflow execution and distributed state management.

Time series event-based database management.

Approximate event-based query processing.

Incremental computing, data structures, and materialized view maintenance for relational, graph, and stream data.

Security, encryption, forecasting, and in-network processing for data streams.

Event-based systems for ML: optimizing end-to-end AI/ML pipelines using event-based systems, i.e., feature engineering, distributed training, and serving.

ML for event-based systems: improving performance using AI/ML methods.

Cloud, fog, and edge computing, including serverless and FaaS.

Hardware acceleration and programmable hardware for event-based systems.

Software-defined networking and disaggregated memory architectures for event-based systems.

Sustainability, security, reliability, and resilience in event-based systems.

Distributed ledger and blockchain for event-based processing.

Applications and use-cases regarding Internet-of-Things (IoT), smart cities, virtual and extended/augmented reality, cyber-physical systems, and sensor networks.

Applications and use-cases regarding enterprise, finance, healthcare, life sciences, logistics, multimedia analytics, computer/network security, and social networking.

Important Dates

Deadlines expire at 11:59pm AoE.

Abstract registration for research track: January 31st, 2025

Submission deadline for research track: February 7th, 2025

Notification: March 28th, 2025

Final decision: April 4th, 2025

Camera ready deadline: May 2nd, 2025

Conference: June 10th–13th 2025

Organizers

General chair

Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

PC chairs

Paris Carbone, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Valeria Cardellini, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

Submissions Categories

The DEBS 2025 Research Track welcomes papers in the following categories:

Regular papers: this category is open to research papers of both theoretical and experimental nature with novel and original research contributions. Regular papers must be no longer than 12 pages, including references.

Short papers: this category offers the opportunity to present and discuss new ideas and/or visions on emerging research challenges. Preliminary results from original research may also be presented, where some aspects of the work remain open, possibly with initial or limited evaluation. Short papers must be no longer than 6 pages, including references.

Submissions Guidelines

Submissions should be formatted in the ACM proceedings style (two-column “sigconf” from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, font size set to 10 pt) and submitted as PDF file via Microsoft CMT. A submitted paper cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is considered for DEBS 2025, and it must be substantially different from any previously published work.

The Research Track adopts a double-blind review process for both categories of papers, where neither authors nor reviewers know each other’s identities. This means that submitted papers must be anonymous (not revealing author names). References to authors’ previous work should be done in the third person to not reveal their identities. There should be no acknowledgments of people or projects. Supplementary material (e.g., GitHub or GitLab repository) should not reveal the authors’ identities; to this end, anonymized repositories can be used (e.g., https://anonymous.4open.science).

Double-blind reviewing does not preclude submitting work intended for DEBS 2025 to preprint services such as arXiv. However, authors are encouraged to use preventive measures to reduce the chances of accidental breach of anonymity (e.g., use a sufficiently different title for their preprint submission).

Authors are strongly encouraged to be inclusive in the writing and presentation of their work. Please visit the subsection "D&I materials" at https://dbdni.github.io/ for details.

DEBS 2025 promotes research reproducibility: authors of papers submitted to the Research Track are encouraged to make their artifacts available. The reviewers will be encouraged to consider this supplementary material. The ACM Artifacts Available badge will be placed on accepted papers that make their artifacts available according to ACM’s rules (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging).

The Research Track Program Committee will evaluate submissions to the Research Track, as well as authors’ responses provided during the rebuttal period.

Authors of selected, top-rated papers from DEBS 2025 will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special journal issue. More information about this will be shared in the coming weeks.

DEBS 2025 plans to be an in-person event, and the authors of accepted papers are expected to arrange for an in-person attendee to present the paper and answer questions.

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library under the ACM DEBS Conference Proceedings. the official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. ACM reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from ACM Digital Library) if none of the authors attends the conference to present their paper.

If you have any questions, please contact the PC co-chairs, Valeria Cardellini and Paris Carbone at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DEBS2025/Email/Chairs.

ACM Policies and Procedures

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. ACM will investigate alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Regarding ACM Policy on Authorship, which also provides policies on the use of generative AI tools in preparing manuscripts, please check the frequently asked questions page.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.