Managing event processing networks
Louis Perrochon, Stephane Kasriel, David C. Luckham · 2001
The technical report presents Complex Event Processing, CEP is a fundamental new technology that will enable the next generation of middleware based distributed applications. CEP gains information on distributed systems and uses this knowledge for monitoring, failure analysis or prediction of activities. A very promising route in CEP research is that of Event Processing Networks, which is one of the main areas of research of the Program and Analysis Group at Stanford University. Event Processing Networks are one way of describing and building CEP, by successively filtering meaningful information and aggregating the corresponding events into higher levels of abstraction. This report describes in detail the foundations and aims of Complex Event Processing. Then we will introduce the concept of Event Processing. Finally, we will describe the architecture of the CEP system.