Over the past decade, the ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems (DEBS)
has become the premier venue for cutting-edge research in the field of event processing and distributed
computing, and the integration of distributed and event-based systems in relevant domains such as Big
Data, AI/ML, IoT, and Blockchain. The objectives of the ACM International Conference on Distributed and
Event-Based Systems (DEBS) are to provide a forum dedicated to the dissemination of original research,
the discussion of practical insights, and the reporting of experiences relevant to distributed systems and
event-based computing. The conference aims at providing a forum for academia and industry to exchange
ideas through its tutorials, research papers, and the Grand Challenge. This year’s Grand Challenge focuses
on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM). The goal of the challenge is to detect when appliances contributing to an aggregated stream of voltage and current readings from a smart meter are switched on or off. The
prize money for the winning submission of the Challenge is 1000 USD.
Important Dates
Research and industry track
Abstract submission for research track - March 13th, 2020
Paper submission - March 20th, 2020
Author notification - May 3rd, 2020
Tutorial submission - March 3rd, 2020
Poster, demo & doctoral symposium submission - May 10th, 2020
Grand challenge
Solution Submission - April 7th, 2020
Short paper submission - April 14th, 2020
Notification of acceptance - May 1st, 2020
Camera ready for all tracks - May 28th, 2020
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DEBS 2020
14th ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED AND EVENT-BASED SYSTEMS
13th - 17th July 2020
École de technologie supérieure
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
General Chair
Kaiwen Zhang, ÉTS
Khuzaima Daudjee, University of Waterloo
Bettina Kemme, McGill University
Program Chair
Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis
Lukasz Golab, University of Waterloo
Proceedings Chair
Julien Gascon-Samson, ÉTS
Industry Chair
Vinod Muthusamy, IBM
Jan Rellermeyer, TU Delft
Grand Challenge Chair
Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University
Ruben Mayer, TU Munich
Daniel Jorde, TU Munich
Dimitris Palyvos-Giannas, Chalmers University
Hannaneh Najdataei, Chalmers University
Tutorials/Workshop Chair
Tilmann Rabl, Hasso Plattner Institute
Leonardo Querzoni, Sapienza University of Rome
Doctoral Symposium Chair
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo
David Eyers, University of Otago
Demos & Posters Chair
Vinay Setty, University of Stavanger
Aris Leivadeas, ÉTS
Web Chair
Sardar Basiri, ÉTS
Publicity Chair
Sukanya Bhowmik, University of Stuttgart
Christoph Doblander, TU Munich