by Rainer von Ammon, CITT, submission to European ICT research initiatives. Ubiquitous COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING is an Industry led initiative to exploit the opportunities of the science of CEP into the mainstream of computational practice across diverse fields of science, not just the aspect of computational modelling but the fundamental physical world phenomena exhibited. Elucidation [...]
by Eric Knorr, InfoWorld.com So many vendors have jumped on the cloud computing bandwagon, the phrase already risks jumping the shark. The problem is that “cloud computing” has two distinctly different meanings: The use of commercial Internet-based services, and the architecture for building and deploying such services. InfoWorld has adopted the former definition. Last April [...]
by K. Mani Chandy and Michael Olson California Institute of Technology Event-driven applications that are constructed as compositions of Web applications offer significant benefits. Just as mashups compose Web services to create added value, so too can compositions of event-driven applications create added value. This article first reviews concepts about event driven applications, sense & [...]
by Brian Albright, RFID Update Researchers at Radboud University in The Netherlands were able to monitor the body temperature of participants at the world’s largest marching event using RFID technology. Volunteer participants in the annual Four Days Marches of Nijmegen swallowed an RFID-based temperature sensor that measured their internal temperature and helped researchers identify potential [...]
Episode six of The Complex Events Podcast is now online, brought to you by Voices in Business and sponsored by BEA Systems. Today’s show features an interview with David Luckham, Research Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) at Stanford University. Professor Luckham is often referred to as “the Father of CEP”. He has held faculty and [...]
by Tom Lubinski, SL Corporation. Abstract – Business Activity Monitoring Applications are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated. Much can be learned about the analysis and visualization of real-time data from comparisons with previous generations of process monitoring and telemetry systems. While there are similarities, there are also significant differences in the technology involved in the [...]
reported by Joe McKendrick, ZDNet This week, a report out of the Financial Times (cited here in the LA Times) said that a bug used in the computer models used by analysts at Moody’s Investors Service caused Moody’s to award “incorrect triple-A ratings to billions of dollars worth of a type of complex debt product.” [...]
Big Blue gets into BPM, while trying to mix social networking with SOA. – Apr 8, 2008 – by Andy Dornan, NetworkComputing.com Think complex event processing sounds too complex? IBM can help. It has renamed the technology business event processing in one of several announcements it’s making at Impact, its annual SOA conference that starts [...]
by: Dave Chappell, Feb. 26, 2008 , websphere journal Across financial services firms we have been seeing a new set of business priorities. There are the “grow the business” priorities that are primarily centered around things like improving customer intimacy and increasing competitive differentiation. There are also ongoing issues of compliance to regulation and risk [...]
by Linda Tucci,13/02/2008, SearchCIO.com Process improvement touches many parts of an organisation — from infrastructure and business strategy to organisational redesign — which means missteps can abound. A panel of been-there, done-thats at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit last week in Las Vegas offered practical advice on how to avoid common risks. The highest [...]