Temporal Perspectives in Event Processing
Opher Etzion · Advances in systems analysis, software engineering, and high performance computing book series · 2010
One of the major characteristics of event processing is its strong relationship to the notion of time, yet some of the temporal aspects of event processing still issue challenges to the implementations of event processing tools. This paper provides an overview of the notion of “event processing network” as the underlying model behind event processing; maps the temporal aspects, and discuss each of them. The temporal aspects that are discussed are: temporal dimensions of events, time granularities, temporal context, temporal patterns, event order, and retrospective and proactive operations.