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Event pedigree
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An Event lineage is a path in the event processing network that enables the tracing of the consequences of an event, or finding the reasons for a certain action.
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An event lineage is an audit feature that is determined to answer one of two questions:
- 1.
What were all the implications of event e?
- 2.
What were the events and processing agents that preceded action a?
The event lineage is obtained by maintaining the history of event processing networks using various techniques.
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Benjelloun O, Sarma AD, Halevy AY, Theobald M, Widom J. Databases with uncertainty and lineage. VLDB J. 2008;17(2):243–64.
Sharon G, Etzion O. Event processing networks – model and implementation. IBM Syst J. 2008;47(2):321–34.
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Etzion, O. (2018). Event Lineage. 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_580
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