Where is DEBS 2026 held?

DEBS 2026 is held in Lisbon, Portugal.

When does DEBS 2026 take place?

DEBS 2026 takes place on 2026-06-23.

What is the ranking of DEBS?

DEBS is ranked QUALIS B2. These are categorical rankings maintained by the respective bodies (China Computer Federation, CORE Inc., and Brazilian CAPES).

Conference Information

DEBS 2026: ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event‐Based Systems

Q: What is the submission deadline for DEBS 2026?

The paper submission deadline for DEBS 2026 (ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event‐Based Systems) is 2026-02-13.

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Submission Date:

2026-02-13

Notification Date:

2026-04-18

Conference Date:

2026-06-23

Location:

Lisbon, Portugal

Years:

20

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Call For Papers

DEBS 2026 (ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event‐Based Systems) is a QUALIS B2 conference held in Lisbon, Portugal on 2026-06-23. The paper submission deadline is 2026-02-13. Acceptance notifications are sent on 2026-04-18.

Objective

The ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event‐Based Systems (DEBS) is the premier venue for academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research in distributed and event-based computing and data processing. DEBS 2026 will provide a forum for original research, practical insights, and experiences in distributed and event-based systems, with a focus on emerging trends and new challenges in the field.

We solicit high-quality submissions across a range of topics, with different submission options to reflect the nature of each contribution. All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer review process.

Scope

The DEBS conference covers a broad range of topics in distributed and event-based computing for various application domains and computing environments. The conference aims to present novel solutions for collecting, detecting, processing, analyzing, and responding to events through distributed middleware, systems, and platforms. DEBS 2026 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:

Systems Design and Data Management

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.
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.

Security and Privacy

Security, encryption, forecasting, and in-network processing for data streams.
Sustainability, security, reliability, and resilience in event-based systems.
Scalable distributed ledger and blockchain..

AI/ML for Systems and Systems for AI/ML

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.

Applications, Use-Cases and Benchmarks

Applications and use cases regarding Internet-of-Things (IoT), smart cities, virtual and extended/augmented reality, cyber-physical systems, and sensor networks.
Applications and use cases regarding enterprise, finance, healthcare, life sciences, logistics, fleet management, transport scheduling and optimization, multimedia analytics, computer/network security, and social networking.
Benchmarks for event-based systems

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Acceptance Ratio

Average acceptance rate: 24.4% over 5 years (2008–2012).

Year	Submitted	Accepted	Accepted(%)
2012	103	17	16.5%
2011	95	23	24.2%
2010	64	16	25%
2009	60	16	26.7%
2008	67	20	29.9%

Best Papers

Year	Best Papers
2025	Histrio: a Serverless Actor System
2024	μWheel: Aggregate Management for Streams and Queries
2023	I Will Survive: An Event-driven Conformance Checking Approach Over Process Streams
2022	Predicate-based push-pull communication for distributed CEP
2021	Distributed transactions on serverless stateful functions
2020	Incremental stream query analytics
2020	hSPICE: state-aware event shedding in complex event processing
2019	On the Need for Distributed Complex Event Processing with Multiple Sinks
2019	Reproducible and Reliable Distributed Classification of Text Streams
2019	A Demonstration of Striim A Streaming Integration and Intelligence Platform
2019	Real-Time Object Recognition from Streaming LiDAR Point Cloud Data
2019	Khronos: Middleware for Simplified Time Management in CPS
2018	Preserving Privacy and Quality of Service in Complex Event Processing through Event Reordering

Related Conferences

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			EBCCSP	International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication and Signal Processing	2016-03-20	2016-04-10	2016-06-13
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a	a*	a1	SIGIR	International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval	2026-01-15	2026-04-02	2026-07-20
a	a*	a1	CVPR	IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2025-11-06	2026-02-20	2026-06-03
b	b	a1	ICRA	International Conference on Robotics and Automation	2025-09-15		2026-06-01
a	a*	a1	IJCAI	International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence	2026-01-31		2026-08-15
a	a*	a1	STOC	ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing	2025-11-04	2026-02-01	2026-06-22
c	b	a2	ICC	International Conference on Communications	2025-10-13	2026-01-12	2026-05-24
c	a	a2	IJCNN	International Joint Conference on Neural Networks	2025-01-15	2025-03-31	2025-06-30
b	b	a1	ICASSP	International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing	2025-09-17	2026-01-16	2026-05-04

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