Best paper award (research track):

Max Meldrum and Paris Carbone
µWheel: Aggregate Management for Streams and Queries

Test of Time Award:

Thomas Heinze, Zbigniew Jerzak, Gregor Hackenbroich, and Christof Fetzer
Latency-aware elastic scaling for distributed data stream processing systems

Grand Challenge performance award:

Emanuel Onica, Iulia Iustina Sarbu and Ciprian Amariei.
Blazing through Hard Drive Telemetry Data Streams with Parallel Processing

Best paper award (research track):

Kristo Raun, Riccardo Tommasini, and Ahmed Awad
I Will Survive: An Event-driven Conformance Checking Approach Over Process Streams

Best paper award (industry & application track):

João Esteves, Rosa Costa, Yongluan Zhou, and Ana Almeida
An exploratory analysis of methods for real-time data deduplication in streaming processes

Best paper award:

Steven Purtzel, Samira Akili, and Matthias Weidlich
Predicate-Based Push-Pull Communication for Distributed Complex Event Processing

Best first-time authors award:

Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, Renata Borovica-Gajic, and Shanika Karunasekera
A Multi-level Caching Architecture to Improve Stateful Stream Processing of Modern Machine Learning Workflows

Best student paper award:

Liuyang Ren, Paul Ward, and Bernard Wong
Toward Reducing Cross-shard Transaction Overhead in Sharded Blockchains

Test of Time Award:

Martin J Hirzel
Partition and Compose: Parallel Complex Event Processing

Grand Challenge performance award:

Luca De Martini, Alessandro Margara, and Gianpaolo Cugola
DEBS Grand Challenge: Analysis of Market Data with Noir

Grand Challenge audience award:

Stefanos Kalogerakis, Antonis Papaioannou, and Kostas Magoutis
Efficient Processing of High-Volume Tick Data with Apache Flink for the DEBS 2022 Grand Challenge

Best paper award:

Martijn de Heus, Kyriakos Psarakis Marios Fragkoulis, and Asterios Katsifodimos.
Distributed Transactions on Serverless Stateful Functions

Test of Time Award:

Richard Hull, Elio Damaggio, Riccardo De Masellis, Fabiana Fournier, Manmohan Gupta, Fenno Terry Heath, Stacy Hobson, Mark Linehan, Sridhar Maradugu, Anil Nigam, Piwadee Noi Sukaviriya, and Roman Vaculin.
Business artifacts with guard-stage-milestone lifecycles: managing artifact interactions with conditions and events

Grand Challenge performance award:

Josip Marić, Krešimir Pripužić, and Martina Antonić.
DEBS Grand Challenge: Real-Time Detection of Air Quality Improvement with Apache Flink

Grand Challenge audience award:

Josip Marić, Krešimir Pripužić, and Martina Antonić.
DEBS Grand Challenge: Real-Time Detection of Air Quality Improvement with Apache Flink

Best Paper:

Ahmad Slo, Sukanya Bhowmik, and Kurt Rothermel.
hSPICE: State–Aware Event Shedding in Complex Event Processing

Test of Time Award:

Gianpaolo Cugola, and Alessandro Margara.
TESLA - A formally defined event specification language

Grand Challenge Audience Award:

Pedro Silva, Wang Yue, and Tilmann Rabl.
Incremental Stream Query Analytics

Grand Challenge Performance Award:

Pedro Silva, Wang Yue, and Tilmann Rabl.
Incremental Stream Query Analytics

Best Paper:

Stefanos Peros, Stéphane Delbruel, Sam Michiels, Wouter Joosen, and Danny Hughes.
Khronos: Middleware for Simplified Time Management in CPS

10 Years Time:

Nicholas Poul Schultz-Møller, Matteo Migliavacca, and Peter R. Pietzuch.
Distributed complex event processing with query rewriting

Grand Challenge and Grand Challenge Audience Awards:

Sambasiva Rao Gangineni, Harshad Reddy Nalla, Saeed Fathollahzadeh, and Kia Teymourian.
Real-Time Object Recognition from Streaming LiDAR Point Cloud Data

Best Demo:

Alok Pareek, Bohan Zhang, and Bhushan Khaladkar.
A Demonstration of Striim: A Streaming Integration and Intelligence Platform

Best Posters:

Artem Trofimov, Mikhail Shavkunov, Sergey Reznick, Nikita Sokolov, Mikhail Yutman, Igor Kuralenok, and Boris Novikov.
Reproducible and reliable distributed classification of text streams

Samira Akili.
On the Need for Distributed Complex Event Processing with Multiple Sinks

DEBS 2002 Most Influential Paper:

Hermes: A Distributed Event-Based Middleware Architecture
Peter R. Pietzuch and Jean M. Bacon

DEBS 2003 Most Influential Paper:

A peer-to-peer approach to content-based publish/subscribe
Wesley W. Terpstra, Stefan Behnel, Ludger Fiege, Andreas Zeidler and Alejandro P. Buchmann

DEBS 2004 Most Influential Paper:

Content-Based Publish-Subscribe Over Structured P2P Networks
Peter Triantafillou and Ioannis Aekaterinidis

DEBS 2005 Most Influential Paper:

MEDYM: Match-Early and Dynamic Multicast for Content-Based Publish-Subscribe Service Networks
Fengyun Cao and Jaswinder Pal Singh

DEBS 2006 Most Influential Paper:

On Quality-of-Service and Publish-Subscribe
Stefan Behnel, Ludger Fiege and Gero Mühl

DEBS 2007 Most Influential Paper:

SpiderCast: a scalable interest-aware overlay for topic-based pub/sub communication
Gregory Chockler, Roie Melamed, Yoav Tock and Roman Vitenberg

Best Paper:

Saravana Palanisamy, Frank Derr, Muhammad Adnan Tariq, and Kurt Rothermel.
Preserving Privacy and Quality of Service in Complex Event Processing through Event Reordering

10 Years Time:

Segev Wasserkrug, Avigdor Gal, Opher Etzion, and Yulia Turchin.
Complex event processing over uncertain data

Bloom filter based routing for content-based publish/subscribe.
Zbigniew Jerzak, Christof Fetzer

Grand Challenge Performance Award:

Ciprian Amariei, Paul Diac, Emanuel Onica, and Valentin Roșca.
Cell Grid Architecture for Maritime Route Prediction on AIS Data Streams

Grand Challenge Research Track:

Saravana Palanisamy, Frank Derr, Muhammad Adnan Tariq, and Kurt Rothermel.
Preserving Privacy and Quality of Service in Complex Event Processing through Event Reordering

Best Papers:

Kanat Tangwongsan, Martin Hirzel and Scott Schneider.
Low-Latency Sliding-Window Aggregation in Worst-Case Constant Time

Nikos Zacheilas, Vana Kalogeraki, Vincenzo Gulisano, Yiannis Nikolakopoulos, Marina Papatriantafilou and Philippas Tsigas.
Maximizing Determinism in Stream Processing Under Latency Constraints

10 Years Time:

Roberto Baldoni, Roberto Beraldi, Vivien Quéma, Leonardo Querzoni and Sara Tucci Piergiovanni.
TERA: Topic-based Event Routing for peer-to-peer Architectures

Best Poster:

Benjamin Steer, Felix Cuadrado and Richard Clegg.
Raphtory: Decentralised Streaming for Temporal Graphs

Best Demo:

Wolfgang Van Raemdonck, Tom Van Cutsem, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Mauricio Cortes, Philippe Dobbelaere, Lode Hoste, Eline Philips, Marc Roelands and Lieven Trappeniers.
Building Connected Car Applications on Top of the World-Wide Streams Platform

Audience Vote Grand Challenge Award:

Christian Mayer, Ruben Mayer and Majd Abdo.
StreamLearner — Distributed Incremental Machine Learning on Event Streams

Overall Grand Challenge Winner:

Ciprian Amariei, Paul Diac and Emanuel Onica.
Optimized Stage Processing for Anomaly Detection on Numerical Data Streams

Audience Challenge Award:

Ruben Mayer, Christian Mayer, Muhammad Adnan Tariq, Kurt Rothermel:

GraphCEP: real-time data analytics using parallel complex event and graph processing.DEBS 2016: 309-316

Overall Challenge Winner:

Ruben Mayer, Christian Mayer, Muhammad Adnan Tariq, Kurt Rothermel:

GraphCEP: real-time data analytics using parallel complex event and graph processing.DEBS 2016: 309-316

Audience Challenge Award:

Vincenzo Gulisano, Yiannis Nikolakopoulos, Ivan Walulya, Marina Papatriantafilou, Philippas Tsigas:

Deterministic real-time analytics of geospatial data streams through ScaleGate objects.DEBS 2015: 316-317

Overall Challenge Winner:

Aimylos Galeos, Prokopis Gryllos, Nikolaos Leventis, Konstantinos Mavrikis, Spyros Voulgaris:

Pimp my taxi ride. DEBS 2015: 318-319

Audience Challenge Award:

Raul Castro Fernandez, Matthias Weidlich, Peter Pietzuch, Avigdor Gal:

Scalable stateful stream processing for smart grids. DEBS 2014: 276-281

Overall Challenge Winner:

Christopher Mutschler, Christoffer Löffler, Nicolas Witt, Thorsten Edelhäußer, Michael Philippsen:

Predictive load management in smart grid environments. DEBS 2014: 282-287

Audience Challenge Award:

Avigdor Gal, Sarah Keren, Mor Sondak, Matthias Weidlich, Hendrik Blom, Christian Bockermann:

Grand challenge: the TechniBall system. DEBS 2013: 319-324

Overall Challenge Winner:

Yingjun Wu, David Maier, Kian-Lee Tan: Grand challenge: SPRINT stream processing engine as a solution. DEBS 2013: 301-306

Audience Challenge Award:

Tilmann Rabl, Kaiwen Zhang, Mohammad Sadoghi, Navneet Kumar Pandey, Aakash Nigam, Chen Wang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen: Solving manufacturing equipment monitoring through efficient complex event processing: DEBS grand challenge. DEBS 2012: 335-340

Overall Challenge Winner:

Alexandros Koliousis, Joseph S. Sventek: Glasgow automata illustrated: DEBS grand challenge. DEBS 2012: 353-358

Audience Challenge Award:

note: there was no audience award in 2011, just an overall winner

Overall Challenge Winner:

Lynn Aders, René Buffat, Zaheer Chothia, Matthias Wetter, Cagri Balkesen, Peter M. Fischer, Nesime Tatbul: DEBS’11 Grand Challenge: Streams, Rules, or a Custom Solution? DEBS 2011