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 5th, 2010 by Tim Bass
In Orwellian Event Processing the discussion moved away from my original intent, which was primarily to discuss the vendor-state-of-denial regarding the prior art for processing complex events, and gravitated toward a discussion on the “inefficiencies” of rule-based systems. I was surprised learn that there are professionals who believe that there is no basis in fact [...]
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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 March 1st, 2010 by Tim Bass
Well, after a long period of working on a number of operational projects, I’m going to take a break from writing code and actually do some blogging again. For some this is good news (and I quote from a private note):
I’m thankful you’ve started blogging again. For a while there I was afraid [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2010 by Tim Bass
Recently we completed the installation and training of an open source Bayesian classifier to replace a rule-based approach to manage forum spam. In a nutshell, we found the rule-based approach was highly prone to both false positives and false negatives; however, a statistical approach using a Bayesian approach has turned out to be far superior. [...]
Filed under: Advanced Event Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Business Rules, CEP Terminology, CEP Tutorials, Complex Event, Complex Event Processing, Cybersecurity, Detection Theory, Event Cloud, Event Processing, Event Stream Processing, False Positives and Negatives, Open Source, Situation Models, Systems Engineering, Use Cases | 16 Comments »
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 »
Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Tim Bass
In the beginning of the (ISC)² blog a number of us enjoyed contributing because the blog was full of posts insightful original security-related pieces. However, over time, many of us have simply stopped writing for the (ISC)² blog.
One main reason for this is that we don’t want to spend the time to write a thoughtful, [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Tim Bass
Around 10 years ago I worked as Technical Director for SAIC as a member of an elite group of Internet security experts. I was responsible for a number of very large global financial corporations (well, actually two). The leader of our division, called The Center of Information Protection (The CIP), was a very intelligent [...]
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