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

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: TBA

Industry paper notification: TBA

Camera ready deadline: TBA

Conference: June 23rd–26th 2026

Industry and Application chairs

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 2026.

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.

Further instructions regarding the submission process will be provided soon.

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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