Disadvantages of Rule-Based Systems (Part 1)

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 [...]

Quiz: Event Processing 101

Take the quiz.  Event Processing 101.
The big question is, “Who will copy me and start posting CEP/EP quizzes next?”
Stay tuned for my next CEP/EP quiz, after I return from a 2 week vacation (sometime in August!)

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Proposed EPTS Steering Committee Reorganization

Following up to my earlier posts on Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) related topics, I am proposing a draft reorganization of the EPTS Steering Committee. The current EPTS Steering Committee was structured as follows:

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Industry
Primary EPTS-Related Technology
Comments

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Software Company
Event Stream Processing / Continuous Query
Vendor

2
Software Company
Event Stream Processing / Continuous Query
Vendor

3
Software Company
Event Stream Processing / Continuous Query
Vendor

4
Software Company
Event [...]

Twenty Four CEP Public Presentations on SlideShare

For archiving purposes, I have uploaded 24 public CEP presentations that I presented over an 18 month period at various conferences from March 14, 2006 to September 21, 2007.  These presentations can be viewed here.  For example, my first public CEP presentation:
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: event processing)
So far, I have placed [...]

Gartner Event Processing Summit (and EPTS Meeting), Sept 2008

Many folks have been sending me email, inquiring if I will be attending the Gartner Event Processing Summit, September 15-16 or the 4th Event Processing Symposium, September 17-19, 2008 (the EPTS meeting).    I regret not attending either event this year and will miss getting together with everyone.  In addition, I would like to thank Opher and the EPTS team for [...]

EPTS: Proposed Event Processing Definitions, September 20, 2006

For interested readers, here are the event processing definitions we provided to the (future) EPTS working group on September 20, 2006, coordinated (edited) by David Luckham and Roy Schulte;
adaptive process management (n.) an element of resource and business process management, adaptive search and event processing. Sometimes referred to as “Level 4” event processing or process refinement.
application [...]

EPTS: An Event Processing Marketing Society (EPMS)

A number of months ago we posted Some Comments on the EPTS Member Agreement where we concluded, in summary:
“I have quite a few other concerns the with EPTS Member Agreement.   Basically, the agreement needs to be written with an eye toward a more flexible, open and inclusive process that puts the future of the EPTS square into [...]

The Fallacy of Self-Fulfilling CEP Use Case Studies

I am back at the glaring computer screen after a day in Lamphun, Northern Thailand, hanging out will my friends who are preparing for a Bonsai tree competition.  I spent the day eating Thai and Chinese food and relaxing in a lounge chair under imported blue palm trees with the sound of exotic birds making background music to [...]

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