BEST PAPER AWARD

Best Paper Award

The DEBS 2026 Best Paper Award recognizes the most outstanding research paper presented at the conference. The award honors a contribution that demonstrates scientific excellence, originality, technical depth, and the potential for significant impact on the field of distributed and event-based systems.

This year's award was presented to Ariane Ziehn, Finn Glück, Philipp Emanuel Meran, Steffen Zeuch, and Volker Markl for their paper, "KRAKEN: Joint Optimization of Operator Placement and Communication for Distributed Stream Processing."

The awarded paper exemplifies the high standards of research, innovation, and technical excellence fostered by the DEBS community.

Congratulations to the authors!