Category: Standards
Mahout on Elastic MapReduce: Running k-means Clustering
Following up on KMeans Clustering Now Running on Elastic MapReduce, Stephen Green has generously documented the steps that was necessary to get an example of k-Means clustering up and running on Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce (EMR) on the Apache Lucene Mahout wiki. Mahout on Elastic MapReduce by Stephen Green As a side note, there has been [...]
Read morePredictive Model Markup Language (PMML)
Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) is an XML-based language developed by the Data Mining Group (DMG). PMML provides a standard XML schema for applications to define statistical and data mining models as well as share these models between PMML compliant applications. PMML identifies a number of models including Association Rules, Cluster Models, General Regression, Naive [...]
Read moreA Review of Zabbix – Zabbix Rules! (Part 2)
In A Review of Zabbix – Zabbix Rules! (Part 1) we provided a brief introduction to Zabbix in the context of network and security management. In this post I will discuss Zabbix as an event processing platform. Zabbix is like most event processing platforms. Zabbix provides both agent-initiated events as well as server-requested events. In [...]
Read moreIT Infrastructure: Capability as a Service
Our recent post, for example, SOA in Cardiac Arrest, Long Live Services and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), combined with many great blog posts I have read in the new year, has got me thinking about IT infrastructure services. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a bit boring to discuss. However, Capability as a [...]
Read morePredictions for the 2009 CEP Market
Reposted (adapted) from The Complex Events Forum: David Luckham: Do you expect the market to expand? No. The entire software market, for the most part, will have a very tough year in 2009, due to a very serious global economic crisis. Firms that have “bet the farm” on capital markets will suffer even more, as [...]
Read moreProposed 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: # Industry Primary EPTS-Related Technology Comments 1 Software Company Event Stream Processing / Continuous Query Vendor 2 Software Company Event Stream [...]
Read moreTwenty 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 [...]
Read moreTowards a Streaming SQL Standard
In More Towards a Streaming SQL Standard, Marc Adler says, “Despite what I think about Streambase’s marketing and sales organization, you must admit that Zdonik and Cherniack are first-class researchers, and have contributed a lot to the field of CEP.” I agree that these gentlemen are top notch researchers, witnessed by the fact that the authors [...]
Read morePlease Welcome Dr. Rainer von Ammon to The CEP Blog
Today is an especially joyful occasion on The CEP Blog. I am pleased to announce that one of the world’s top experts on CEP, Dr. Rainer von Ammon, has joined the blog. Dr. Rainer von Ammon is managing director of the Centrum für Informations-Technology Transfer (CITT) in Regensburg. Until October 2005 he was Professor for Software Engineering, specializing in [...]
Read moreCEP Center of Excellence for Cybersecurity at Software Park Thailand
In July 2007, at InformationSecurityAsia2007, I unveiled an idea to create a cybersecurity CEP Center of Excellence (COE) in Thailand. Under the collaborative guidance of Dr. Rom Hiranpruk, Deputy Director, Technology Management Center, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Dr. Prinya Hom-anek, President and Founder, ACIS Professional Center, and Dr. Komain Pipulyarojana, Chief National Security Section, National Electronics [...]
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