@conference {Pietzuch07,
	title = {Towards a Common API for Publish/Subscribe},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Inaugural International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS)},
	year = {2007},
	month = {06/2007},
	address = {Toronto, Canada},
	abstract = {<p>Over the last decade a wide range of publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems have come out of the research community. However, there is little consensus on a common pub/sub API, which would facilitate innovation, encourage application building, and simplify the evaluation of existing prototypes. Industry pub/sub standards tend to be overly complex, technology-centric, and hard to extend, thus limiting their applicability in research systems.</p>

<p>In this paper we propose a common API for pub/sub that is tailored towards research requirements. The API supports three levels of compliance (with optional extensions): the lowest level specifies abstract operations without prescribing an implementation or data model; medium compliance describes interactions using a light-weight XML-RPC mechanism; finally, the highest level of compliance enforces an XML-RPC data model, enabling systems to understand each other{\textquoteright}s event and subscription semantics. We show that, by following this flexible approach with emphasis on extensibility, our API can be supported by many prototype systems with little effort.</p>},
	url = {http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~peter/doc/debs07-pubsub_api-pietzuch.pdf},
	author = {Peter Pietzuch and David Eyers and Samuel Kounev and Brian Shand}
}
