I’m chairing the research program committee of the ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS) 2026 together with Sukanya Bhowmik (University of Potsdam). Paper deadline is 20th of Feburary. More information is on the website: https://2026.debs.org/
Category Archives: Conferences & Meetings
Area Chair ICDE 26 & Reviewer NeurIPS 25
I’m honored to announce that I will serve as an area chair for ICDE 2026 and as a reviewer for NeurIPS 2025!
Associate Editor for PVLDB Volume 19 (VLDB 2026)
I’m an Associate Editor for PVLDB Volume 19 (VLDB 2026), covering the period from April 2025 to March 2026. Accepted papers from this volume will be presented at VLDB 2026, which will be held in Boston, USA.
VLDB Paper Accepted
Our paper titled “How Reliable Are Streams? End-to-End Processing-Guarantee Validation and Performance Benchmarking of Stream Processing Systems” has just been accepted for VLDB 2025!
Papers accepted at VLDB and Middleware conference
Two papers on GNN and Federated Learning systems have been accepted at international top conferences: Nikolai Merkel, Pierre Toussing, Ruben Mayer, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. “Can Graph Reordering Speed Up Graph Neural Network Training? An Experimental Study.” 15 Pages. Accepted at VLDB 2025. Preprint available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11129 Herbert Woisetschläger, Alexander Erben, Ruben Mayer, Shiqiang Wang, and Hans-ArnoContinue reading “Papers accepted at VLDB and Middleware conference”
Associate Editor at ICDE
I’m honered to be invited as Associate Editor for the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2025!
Paper accepted at EDBT
Our paper titled “An Experimental Comparison of Partitioning Strategies for Distributed Graph Neural Network Training” has been accepted at EDBT 2025! A preprint can be found on Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15602
Papers at IJCAI and DEEM
Two machine learning papers have been accepted: Herbert Woisetschläger, Alexander Erben, Shiqiang Wang, Ruben Mayer, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. “A Survey on Efficient Federated Learning Methods for Foundation Model Training.” In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI ’24). Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04472 Herbert Woisetschläger, Alexander Erben, Shiqiang Wang, Ruben Mayer, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.Continue reading “Papers at IJCAI and DEEM”
PC Member at NeurIPS 2024
I was invited to serve as reviewer for the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track! Please consider submitting your work. See the Call for Papers.
PC Member at ICDCS, ICFEC, IJCNN, and DEBS
This year, I serve in many program committees of academic conferences. Among others, this is the 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, the 8th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing, the 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, and the 18th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems.
Ruben Mayer 