Object Refinement in CEP: Tracking Temperatures

Our colleagues at Apama share an interesting use case, tracking the body temperature of someone walking in their recent press release.
This use case is a clear example of a subfunction of complex event processing, folks in the multi-sensor data fusion field (and here at The CEP Blog) refer to as event (object) refinement, sometimes called “track and trace.”
The reason we call this processing function [...]

As They Say: When in Rome, Do as the Romans.

Recently I had a nice conversation with the head of Asia-Pacific of an international company about how to succeed in Thailand. I explained how businesses in Thailand do not respond well to companies that come to Thailand with no experience, track record or support infrastructure here in the Kingdom. I also explained [...]

Red Herring Fallacies: The Straw Man Argument

According to our friend Wikipedia, the Straw Man argument is a red-herring fallacy where one party in a debate describes a position that, on the surface, resembles an opponent’s actual view but is easier to refute.  Then, in counterpoint, the debating partner attributes an easily refutable position to the opponent (for example, deliberately overstating the [...]

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