Conceptual Description
Among thousands of incoming events, a monitoring system may for instance receive the following three from the same source:
- church bells ringing.
- the appearance of a man in a tuxedo with a woman in a flowing white gown.
- rice flying through the air.
From these events the monitoring system may infer a complex event: a wedding. CEP as a technique helps discover complex events by analyzing and correlating other events: the bells, the man and woman in wedding attire and the rice flying through the air.
CEP relies on a number of techniques, including:
- -Event-pattern detection
- -Event abstraction
- -Modeling event hierarchies
- -Detecting relationships (such as causality, membership or timing) between events
- -Abstracting event-driven processes
Commercial applications of CEP include algorithmic stock-trading, the detection of credit-card fraud, business activity monitoring, and security monitoring.
Read more about this topic: Complex Event Processing
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