Marc Adler: Analytics are an Integral Part of the CEP Stack

In Recent Buyouts, Marc Adler of Citigroup blogs “Despite what the various pundits of the CEP world say, I still think that analytics are an integral part of the CEP stack.”
Mark also says something else I agree with, “… [TIBCO] Business Events [ ... is ...] a more workflow-oriented product, something that you would NOT use to pump [...]

The Grammar of Complex and Intelligent Events

Folks defining CEP, and now this new term IEP, have been very passionate over the past few years that “Complex Event Processing” means the Processing of “Complex Events” not the “Complex Processing” of Events.   
Grammatically speaking, it follows that Complex is an adjective describing a noun, Event; and Processing is a verb. 
Complex events are defined by the same community as composite [...]

The Infant, the Elephant and the Intelligent Event

Fellow blogger Opher Etzion, replies to  On Elephants and Analytics with On Unicorn, Professor and Infant.   Opher is kindly giving us another metaphor to consider, the Infant and the Profession, since we are both big fans of big gentle elephants, babies and our universities.  
Opher and I agree that Infants are not Professors, and we also agree that CEP is in its [...]

On Elephants and Analytics

In On EP and Analytics, good friend and respected colleague Opher Etzion applies the well known metaphor of the big elephant to describe how, if you are observing certain specific domains of a subject, like fraud detection, then your view of the whole elephant is biased by your lack of perspective of the entire big elephant.
I am pleased that dear Opher continues [...]

TIBCO Leaps Ahead in CEP with Insightful Acquisition

TIBCO Software shows, yet again, why the team in Palo Alto far outpaces the rest of the field with their announced acquisition of Insightful.  
Everyone who follows The CEP Blog and my vision for the business use of CEP understands how much energy and passion I have put into explaining why the crude time-series analysis of streaming data cannot possibly solve [...]

Capital Market CEP Fantasy Land

In Tech Spending Hit by Subprime Mess, Jeffery Schwartz says,
“According to Tabb, spending on development is being refocused on projects that can help firms improve their margins and, not surprisingly, do a better job at risk management. As such, investments in capabilities such as algorithmic trading and complex event processing (CEP) are likely to be [...]

ICT Cmte: Thailand’s Cyber Law Compliance Seminar

ICT Cmte: Thailand’s Cyber Law Compliance Seminar
American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand
Date & Time: 17-Jun-2008
Details: This month You are invited to attend a Computer Crime Act Compliance Seminar. Find out what the Thai “Cyber Law” requires, when it will start to be enforced and how you can comply. If your business or hotel offers Internet [...]

The Predictive Battlespace

Friend and colleague Don Adams, CTO World Wide Public Sector, TIBCO Software, explains how CEP can be used to sense, adapt and respond to complex situations in The “Predictive” Battlespace: Leveraging the Power of Event-Driven Architecture in Defense. 

Probabilistic Complex Event Triggering

Here is an interesting paper, Probabilistic Complex Event Triggering, Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, and Liviu Tancau, Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, circa 2005.
One of the first things I noticed about the paper was the discussion of probability in the content of complex event processing, including Hidden Markov processes, Bayesian Belief Networks, [...]

Update on the LinkedIn CEP Users Group

There are now 234 members of the CEP Users Group on LinkedIn.  So, if you have not yet joined the CEP Users Group, please do so by clicking here.

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