The Power of Events

An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems

David Luckham

376 pages, parution le 29/05/2002

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Résumé

Complex Event Processing (CEP) is a defined set of tools and techniques for analyzing and controlling the complex series of interrelated events that drive modern distributed information systems. This emerging technology helps IS and IT professionals understand what is happening within the system, quickly identify and solve problems, and more effectively utilize events for enhanced operation, performance, and security. CEP can be applied to a broad spectrum of information system challenges, including business process automation, automating schedule and control, network monitoring and performance prediction, and intrusion detection.

The Power of Events introduces Complex Event Processing and shows specifically how this innovative technology can be utilized to enhance the quality of large-scale, distributed, enterprise systems. It describes the challenges faced by today's information systems, explains fundamental CEP concepts, and highlights CEP's role within a complex and evolving contemporary context. After thoroughly introducing the concept, the book moves on to a more detailed, technical explanation of CEP, featuring the Rapide event pattern language, reactive event pattern rules, event pattern constraints, and event processing agents. It offers practical advice on building CEP-based solutions that solve real world IS/IT problems.

Readers will learn about such essential topics as:

Managing the open electronic enterprise in the "global event cloud"
Process architectures and on-the-fly process evolution
Events, timing, causality, and aggregation
Event patterns and event abstraction hierarchies
Causal event tracking and information gaps
Multiple views and hierarchical viewing
Dynamic process architectures
The Rapide event pattern language
Event pattern rules, constraints, and agents
Event processing networks (EPNs)
Causal models and event pattern maps
Implementing event abstraction hierarchies

Two comprehensive case studies—one the real-time monitoring of events flowing between the business processes of collaborating enterprises, and the other, a hierarchically organized set of event-driven views of a financial trading system—illustrate the benefits of CEP, as well as key strategies for applying the technology. A case study applying CEP to network viewing and intrusion detection is also presented. The book concludes with a look at building an infrastructure for CEP, showing how the technology can provide a significant competitive advantage to the myriad of event-driven, Internet-based applications now coming onto the market.

Contents

1. The Global Information Society and The Need for New Technology.
2. Managing the Electronic Enterprise In The Global Event Cloud.
3. Viewing The Electronic Enterprise-Keeping The Human In Control.
4. Designing The Electronic Enterprise.
5. Events, Timing, and Causality.
6. Event Patterns, Rules and Constraints.
7. Complex Events and Event Hierarchies.
8. The RAPIDE Pattern Language.
9. CEP Rules and Agents.
10. Event Processing Networks.
11. Causal Models and Causal Maps.
12. Case Study: Viewing Collaboration Between Business Processes.
13. Implementing Event Abstraction Hierarchies.
14. Case Study: Viewing a Financial Trading System.
15. Infrastructure for Complex Event Processing.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	David Luckham
Parution	29/05/2002
Nb. de pages	376
Format	19 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	782g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780201727890