09:15 AM - 10:45 AM Keynote Address details

• Event Processing & An Architecture View
  Dr. Opher Etzion (IBM software group)

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Session 1

• Exploiting Gossip for Self-Management in Scalable Event Notification Systems
  K. Birman (Cornell Univ.), A-M Kermarrec (INRIA/IRISA), K. Ostrowski (Cornell Univ.), M. Bertier (IRISA/INSA), D. Dolev (Hebrew Univ.) & R. V. Renesse (Cornell Univ.)
• Towards Fair Gossiping
  R. Guerraoui (EPFL), B. Koldehofe (Univ. of Stuttgart), Maxime Monod (EPFL)
• A Concept for Flexible Event-Driven Invocation of Distributed Service Compositions
  J. Anke (SAP Research), K. Walzer (SAP Research)

12:30 PM - 14:00 PM Lunch

14:00 PM - 15:30 PM Session 2

• Using stream queries to measure communication performance of a parallel computing environment
  E. Zeitler (Uppsala Univ.), T. Risch (Uppsala Univ.)
• Automated Ensemble Extraction and Analysis of Acoustic Data Streams
  E. P. Kasten (Michigan State Univ.), P. K. McKinley (Michigan State Univ.), S. H. Gage Michigan State Univ.)
• Event Stream Processing with Out-of-Order Data Arrival
  M. Li (Worcester Polytechnic Inst.), M. Liu (Worcester Polytechnic Inst.), E. A.Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Inst.), M. Mani (Worcester Polytechnic Inst.)

15:30 PM - 15:45 PM Tea Break

15:45 PM - 16:45 PM Session 3

• Transactions in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Middleware
  L. Vargas (Univ. of Cambridge), L. I. W. Pesonen (Univ. of Cambridge), E. Gudes (Ben-Gurion Univ.), J. Bacon (Univ. of Cambridge)
• A Distributed Algorithm for Underlay Aware and Available Overlay Formation in Event Broker Networks for Publish/Subscribe Systems
  M. Kumar (IIT Bombay), U. Bellur (IIT Bombay)

16:45 PM - 17:00 PM Concluding Remarks