A Blast from the Past: Processing Patterns for Predictive Business, March 2006

Tim Bass
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:22:26 +0000
For*readers interested in complex event processing and a few of the challenges the industry faces, here is a presentation from 28 months back called Processing Patterns for Predictive Business.** This presentation was delivered at the first Workshop on Event Processing - Presentations*at IBM Research Labs, Yorktown Heights, March 14-16th 2006.
The same key points of that presentation are still relevant today:

  1. Event-Decision Processing is Computationally Intensive
  2. CEP requires a Number of Technologies:
  • Distributed Computing, Publish/Subscribe and SOA
  • Hierarchical, Cooperative Inference Processing
  • High Speed, Real Time Processing with State Management
  • Event-Decision Architecture for Complex Situations and Events
  • There is no single �CEP Solution� or �CEP Product� (in the market place then, and today)
  1. CEP needs a Common Vocabulary and Functional Architecture based on Mature, Industry-Standard Inference Models
  2. Processing and Integration Patterns for CEP need to be Developed and Formalized
    Since March of 2006 a number of other challengeshas surfaced. I will elaborate on this challenges in a future post.

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