Posted on June 2nd, 2010 by Tim Bass
Colin Barr has covered finance for Fortune.com since November 2007. Colin was a writer and editor for TheStreet.com, winning a 2006 Society of American Business Editors and the Writers award for “The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street,” and for Dow Jones Newswires. Colin pinned an excellent article on May [...]
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Posted on May 26th, 2010 by Tim Bass
It is pretty clear to most everyone that high frequency trading (HFT) destroys market integrity. In recent comments on my blog post, Strongly Regulate High Frequency Trading, Colin Clark shift’s the discussion away from HFT and points the finger at other market fundamentals. I agree with Colin that there are certainly myriad other [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Tim Bass
In Regulation: Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater, Progress CTO John Bates illustrates the principle of advocating a position based on a natural conflict-of-interest and then wrapping “the package” in rhetorical phrases.
First of all, the US economy (read individual investors) would be much better off if financial services firms (or anyone) were [...]
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Posted on May 24th, 2010 by Tim Bass
After months under the specter of civil unrest in Thailand, and more recently nearly a week dominated by a government imposed curfew in Thailand, I was pleased to read Paul Vincent’s post, TUCON2010: Reviewing the reviews, and yet more CEP presentations…” Paul, Alan and the TIBCO event processing team continue to demonstrate why TIBCO is [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Tim Bass
In a new development for me, I recently learned that one of the criteria for a “RETE-based rules-engine” to actually be classified as “RETE” is that the software must perform both forward and backward chaining. A well respected rules professional just informed me:
If [the rules-engine] is just forward chaining it’s not RETE because the [...]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by Tim Bass
When I first read The Power of Events: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems by David Luckham I took away three high level ideas:
Events are important in business.
Events can be processed in a hierarchical way.
Rapide is a modeling tool developed at Stanford that can be used to model complex systems.
These three [...]
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Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Tim Bass
Like most of you, I am still in complete shock over Northwest Flight 253 and how our government still cannot connect-the-dots in simple intelligence matters to protect us from harm.
In this case, the well-respected father of a radical-Islamic Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab reached out to the US Embassy and other organizations in an honorable [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Tim Bass
There is quite a lot is happening in the world of complex event processing. Interestingly enough, the people and the companies advancing processing complex events are not calling what they are doing “CEP the Buzzword” we read about in the press or that a handful of “pioneers” claim make them modern-day CEP “experts”.
The companies processing [...]
Filed under: Advanced Event Processing, Analytics, CEP News and Events, Complex Event Processing, Cyber-Trading Technologies, Event Processing, Financial Services, Predictive Business, Use Cases | 6 Comments »
