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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

The 19th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2025)
Gothenburg, Sweden, June 10-13, 2025
Website: https://2025.debs.org/
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Important Dates
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- Abstract submission for Research Track: January 31, 2025
- Research Track paper submission: February 7, 2025
- Rebuttal: March 21, 2025 to March 28, 2025
- Research Track decision notification: April 4, 2025

- Industry and Application Track paper submission: March 23, 2025
- Industry and Application Track notification: April 21, 2025

- Grand Challenge – Registration & Environment Access: December 2024
- Grand Challenge – Evaluation Platform Opens: February 2025
- Grand Challenge short paper submission: May 2, 2025
- Grand Challenge short paper camera-ready: May 9, 2025
- Grand Challenge – Evaluation Platform Closes: May 9, 2025

- Tutorial and Workshop proposal submission: February 28, 2025
- Tutorial and Workshop notification: March 14, 2025

- Poster and Demo paper submission: April 11, 2025
- Poster and Demo author notification: April 25, 2025

- Doctoral symposium paper submission: May 16, 2025
- Doctoral symposium notification: May 23, 2025
- Doctoral symposium camera-ready (for publication on website): May 30, 2025

- Camera ready for all tracks (except Grand Challenge & Doctoral symposium): May 2, 2025

- Conference: June 10-13, 2025

Objective
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The ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS) is the premier venue for academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research and practical applications in distributed and event-based computing and data processing. DEBS 2025 will bring together researchers and practitioners to present novel solutions, share experiences, and explore new challenges in distributed and event-based systems, with a focus on emerging trends.

Scope
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The DEBS conference aims to present original research, innovative designs, and practical experiences in the field of distributed and event-based systems. 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.
- Scalable distributed ledger and blockchain.
- Industrial applications and applied research of AI in distributed and event-based systems.
- Use cases and experiences (e.g., in smart cities, smart IoT, CPS, Cloud/Fog/Edge, etc).
- Deployment and operation of distributed and event-based systems and applications.
- Systems and approaches for event data management and stream fusion.
- Programming languages and DSLs.
- Testing and benchmarking of real-world event processing systems and applications.
- Event processing for training machine learning models, stream analytics, or online-learning.
- Inferencing of machine learning models from event streams and edge AI.
- Experiences with stream processing on heterogeneous and reconfigurable hardware.

Submission Categories
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DEBS 2025 invites submissions in the following categories:

* Research Track: https://2025.debs.org/call-for-research-papers/
- 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 for the Research Track will undergo a double-anonymous review process.
- Authors of selected, top-rated papers from DEBS 2025 will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the special issue for Elsevier's Information Systems on "Advances in Distributed Data Processing and Event-Based Systems".

* Industry and Application Track: https://2025.debs.org/call-for-industry-papers/
- This track encourages practical contributions and experiences from industry with a particular focus on real-world challenges.
- Submissions should cover novel uses, designs, or deployment of event-based applications or distributed systems, with an industry theme. Full papers in this track must be no longer than 12 pages, and short papers must be no longer than 6 pages.
- The Industry and Application Track will follow a single-anonymous review process, where authors' identities are known to reviewers.

* DEBS 2025 Grand Challenge: https://2025.debs.org/call-for-grand-challenge-solutions/
- The DEBS Grand Challenge is an annual competition focusing on scalable distributed and event-based systems to solve practical problems. Participants implement solutions to analyze a real-world dataset and compare performance on common evaluation criteria. Winners are announced at the DEBS conference.
- 2025 Challenge “Defect Monitoring in Additive Manufacturing” is about real-time defect monitoring in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) manufacturing. Participants need to develop systems that analyze streams of optical tomography images, detecting defects and providing predictions in real time.
- Participation in the DEBS 2025 Grand Challenge consists of three steps: (1) registration, (2) iterative solution submission, and (3) paper submission (short paper, maximum 6 pages).
- Solutions are benchmarked for correctness, performance, and non-functional requirements (e.g., scalability, reliability, configurability).
- Awards: Performance and practical applicability of solutions will determine the winners.

* Tutorial and Workshops: https://2025.debs.org/call-for-tutorials-workshops/
- DEBS 2025 will host a one-day, multi-track tutorial program, featuring both short (1-session) and long (2-session) tutorials. Topics can range from specific distributed system technologies to general areas like middleware, architectures, and methods for processing events. Tutorials on emerging software platforms and enterprise-level infrastructures are highly encouraged, but marketing or product-specific tutorials are not allowed. Tutorials may be at introductory, intermediate, or advanced levels.
- Workshop proposals are welcome on all topics of interest to the DEBS community.
- Proposal Submission: proposals should be 2-4 pages including: type (Tutorial/Workshop) and length (full/half day), organizer(s) details and contacts, title and abstract, structure, target audience, expected outcomes and relevance to DEBS and speaker bios (if applicable).

* Posters and Demos: https://2025.debs.org/call-for-posters-demos/
- Demonstrations provide a platform for researchers to showcase prototypes or operational systems and share insights from implementing event-based systems. Submissions are welcome in all areas of the conference's scope.
- Demo submissions should be 2-4 pages and include the prefix “Demo:” in the title, optionally include a URL to a live version or a video of the demo for review purposes, and the source code is strongly encouraged to be made available (required to be considered for the best demo award).
- Poster presentations allow researchers to present preliminary findings or novel ideas related to DEBS. Submissions should be up to 2 pages and include the prefix “Poster:” in the title.
- The review process is single-anonymous.

* Doctoral Symposium: https://2025.debs.org/call-for-doctoral-symposium/
- The Doctoral Symposium at DEBS 2025 provides a platform for PhD students to present their research, receive constructive feedback, and gain mentoring from established researchers.
- The symposium welcomes PhD candidates working in distributed event-based systems and related fields.
- Accepted submissions will: be presented during the symposium, include an opportunity to present a poster, and be posted on the DEBS website but will not appear in the ACM Digital Library.
- Submissions must be single-authored, 4 pages max, and include the PhD supervisor's name (clearly marked as “supervised by ...” under the author’s name).

Submission Guidelines
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Submissions should be formatted in the ACM conference proceedings style and submitted as PDF files via Microsoft CMT at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DEBS2025

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 conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. DEBS 2025 will also offer ACM Artifacts Available badges for papers that provide open research artifacts.

General Co-Chairs
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Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Research Track TPC Co-Chairs
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Paris Carbone, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Industry and Application Co-Chairs
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Paul Townend, Umeå University, Sweden
Abel Souza, University of California Santa Cruz, US

Grand Challenge Co-Chairs
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Luca De Martini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Jawad Tahir, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Alessandro Margara, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Christoph Doblander, TU Munich, Germany
Sebastian Frischbier, Allianz Global Investors

Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs
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Ruben Mayer, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway

Tutorials/Workshop Co-Chairs
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Vasiliki Kalavri, Boston University, US
Alessandro V. Papadopoulos, Mälardalen University (Sweden) and University of Málaga (Spain)

Poster and Demo Chair
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Miquel Pericàs, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg

Publicity Chair
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Romaric Duvignau, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Proceeding Chair
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Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa, Italy