1st International Workshop on Complex Event Processing for Future Internet

Workshop 2
1st International Workshop on Complex Event Processing for Future Internet
- Realizing Reactive Future Internet -
Sunday, September 28, full-day

presentations available here:

1 Experimenting with Complex Event Processing for Large Scale Internet Services Monitoring
2 Verifcation of an industrial rule-based manufacturing system using REX
3 Blending Complex Event Processing with the RETE Algorithm
4 Event-Based Decision Management in Compliance Management - A Discussion Paper
5 Temporal and Modal Logic Based Event Languages for the Development of Reactive Application Systems
6 Contextualised Event-Triggered Reactivity With Similarity Search
7 Business Activity Monitoring Based on Action-Ready Dashboards And Response Loop
8 Event-Driven Business Process Management and its Practical Application Taking the Example of DHL

Organisers:
Darko Anicic I FZI, Karlsruhe, DE
Christian Brelage I SAP AG
Opher Etzion I IBM Research Lab, Haifa, IL
Nenad Stojanovic I FZI - Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, DE

One of main goals of the Future Internet is to “dynamically and proactively support the operations of businesses organisations and the everyday life of citizens and in a seamless and natural fashion”. It would require the transition from a passive system in which users initiate activities (like Internet is now), to an active environment in which associated software agents find, organize and display information/services on behalf of users. In the nutshell of this process is the ability of a Future Internet system (i.e., an agent or a service) to sense and respond on the billions of signals coming from different sources in different forms. For example, an interesting triggering event can be the non-existence of a signal that regularly appears in a context of a service’s execution. Such an event can influence the execution of another service, which can result in another event. Even more, the combination of these events in a particular context can be treated as an event (complex event), relevant for the execution of another service(s).

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In the networked services supply chain, that will characterize Future Internet, every service produces many events that might be relevant for other services. It is clear that all these influences, due to their ad-hoc nature, cannot be defined in advance explicitly. Real-world reactivity requires a kind of publish-subscribe mechanism, that enables pushing relevant events to interesting parties. It means that the actual data flow (and not predefined workflows) will determine the reactive nature of a Future Internet system.

On the other side, event-based systems are now gaining increasing momentum as witnessed by current efforts in many. However, the current status of development is just the top of the iceberg compared with the impact that event processing could achieve, as already reported by market research companies. Indeed, existing approaches are dealing primarily with the syntactical (but very scalable) processing of low-level signals and primitive actions, which usually goes with an inadequate treatment of the notions of time, context or concurrency (e.g., synchronization). 

Hence, the realisation of the reactive nature of the Future Internet requires new models, methods and tools for the efficient event processing: their representation, acquisition, aggregation and consumption. Especially important is the processing of events on a higher abstraction level, by combining them in a specific context: time, space, semantics – so called complex event processing (CEP). It includes finding and defining event patterns from the low level events, aggregating and correlating events to build business level events.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submissions: August 22, 2008
Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2008
Camera-ready versions: September 12, 2008
Workshop: September 28, 2008

Submission Information:

Papers should be prepared using the LNCS style. Long papers should be at most ten pages; short papers at most four pages.