Objective and Scope

The DEBS 2026 Industry and Application Track invites submissions on innovative design, development, or deployment of event-based and distributed systems and applications. Contributions will be reviewed by researchers and industry practitioners working in distributed and event-based computing.

An important goal of DEBS is to enrich and cultivate cooperation and exchange between researchers and practitioners who work on distributed and event-based systems. Such interactions help practitioners to become aware of leading-edge research that can address issues and problems in commercial systems, while also allowing researchers to learn more about details and concerns with event-based and distributed applications and systems that arise in commercial implementations and deployments.

Submissions should present novel work and experiences related to distributed and event-based systems with a particular focus on industrial systems and applied research. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

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;

Models, architectures, and paradigms in distributed and event-based systems;

Cloud and edge-based approaches, including serverless and hybrid/multi-cloud;

Distributed systems trade-offs for event-based applications;

Experiences with load management, fault tolerance, and reconfiguration;

Security and consistency issues;

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;

Integrating machine learning operations into (distributed) event processing systems;

Experiences with stream processing on heterogeneous and reconfigurable hardware;

HTAP (Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing) systems and real-time analytics on transactional data;

Stream-to-warehouse integration and unified batch and stream processing;

LLM-powered event processing, CEP rule generation, and real-time RAG on streams;

Federated learning on distributed event streams and federated edge event processing;

Digital twins in manufacturing, smart cities, and cyber-physical systems;

Energy-efficient stream processing, carbon-aware scheduling, and green computing;

Event-driven serverless at the edge and cold start mitigation;

Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Hudi integration for streaming analytics.

Finally, as DEBS 2026 places emphasis on reproducibility, we also encourage authors of Industry and Application papers to make available all data used for empirical evaluation, the related software as well as clear instructions for reproducing the presented experiments, as a form of supplementary material. The reviewers will be encouraged to consider this material.

Important Dates

Deadlines expire at 11:59pm AoE.

Industry paper submission: 24th March, 2026

Industry paper notification: 21st April, 2026

Camera ready deadline: 15th May, 2026

Conference: June 23rd–26th 2026

Industry and Application chairs

Daniel Ritter, SAP, Germany

Nuno Cruz, ISEL, Portugal

Submissions

Industry and Applications Track papers should cover some novel use or development of event-based applications or distributed systems, with an industry theme, and must be no longer than 12 pages. We also welcome short papers no longer than 6 pages. Each submission must be original, unpublished and cannot be under review for another publishing forum during the time it is under submission to DEBS 2025.

For information about Auxiliary Materials, please check here.

Submissions to the Industry and Application track will be evaluated by the Industry and Application Program Committee. This track will use a single-blind process, unlike the double-blind reviews in the Research Track, so information about the authors and their affiliations should be present in all submissions.

Submitted papers are required to adhere to the two-column "sigconf" ACM conference proceeding style. Templates and examples in LaTeX and various versions of Microsoft Word are available for download from the ACM Primary Article Template page.

This year's edition will place ACM Artifacts Available badges on papers that make their artifacts available according to ACM's rules.

Papers in pdf format may be submitted via Microsoft CMT.

The authors of accepted papers will be given a choice between different copyright agreements, according to the recent changes in the ACM policy. The options will include opportunities for open access as well as the traditional ACM copyright agreement.

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