The Power of Events: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed (Hardcover)

Table of Contents

Preface.
Acknowledgments.

I. A SIMPLE INTRODUCTION TO COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING.

1. The Global Information Society and the Need for New Technology.
2. Managing the Electronic Enterprise in the Global Event Cloud.
3. Viewing the Electronic Enterprise-Keeping the Human in Control.
4. Designing the Electronic Enterprise.
5. Events, Timing, and Causality.
6. Event Patterns, Rules, and Constraints.
7. Complex Events and Event Hierarchies.

II. BUILDING SOLUTIONS WITH CEP.

8. The RAPIDE Pattern Language.
9. CEP Rules and Agents.
10. Event Processing Networks.
11. Causal Models and Causal Maps.
12. Case Study: Viewing Collaboration between Business Processes.
13. Implementing Event Abstraction Hierarchies.
14. Case Study: Viewing a Financial Trading System.
15. Infrastructure for Complex Event Processing.
Bibliography.