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Complex Event Processing

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Synonyms

Event processing; Event stream processing

Definition

Complex event processing deals with various types of processing complex events.

Key Points

Figure 1 shows that the different applications of the CEP technology are not monolithic, and can be classified into five different solution segments, which differ in their motivation, from the user’s perspective, they are:

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Recommended Reading

  1. Etzion O. Event processing, architecture and patterns, tutorial. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems; 2008.

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  3. Luckham D. The power of events. Reading: Addison-Wesley; 2002.

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  4. Sharon G, Etzion O. Event processing networks – model and implementation. IBM Syst J. 2008;47(2):321–34.

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  5. Zimmer D, Unland R. On the semantics of complex events in active database management systems. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering; 1999. p. 392–9.

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  1. IBM Software Group, IBM Haifa Labs, Haifa University Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Opher Etzion

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. IBM Software Group, IBM Haifa Labs, Haifa, Israel, Israel

    Opher Etzion

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Etzion, O. (2018). Complex Event Processing. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_571

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