Complex Event Processing Standards

Bob Marcus

Motivation for the CEP Standards Session

• Complex Event Processing (CEP) technology is an essential complement to SOA for near real time operations

• CEP Engines are being used successfully in large scale mission-critical applications e.g. algorithmic training, intelligence

• Interoperability standards across CEP Engines (e.g. for event exchange) will be necessary for cross-organization collaboration

• These standards are technically feasible but are not being driven forward by current single CEP engine applications

• The purpose of this Session is to explore possible ways to accelerate standards development to support future multiple CEP engine deployments

Future Complex Event Processing Standards Agenda• 13:00 - 13:15 Welcome / Event Purpose and Review Robert Marcus, NCOIC and Charlotte

Wales, Lead Info Systems Engineer, MITRE • 13:15 - 14:00 "How CEP Takes the Next Step" Matthew Rothera, Director of Technical

Services, Progress Apama• 14:00 - 14:45 "High Performance CEP: Sense and Respond to Imminent Threats"

Richard Tibbetts, Chief Architect , StreamBase Systems • 14:45 - 15:00 Afternoon Refreshments• 15:00 - 15:45 "The Role of Rules in CEP" Paul Vincent, Rules Manager, TIBCO • 15:45 – 16:00 CEP Language for Sophisticated Applications John Morrell, Director of

Product Marketing, Coral8 • 16:00 - 16:15 "The Data-Distribution Service (DDS) as a Transport for CEP Engine"

Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, CTO, Real-Time Innovations, Inc. • 16:15 - 17:00 “Closing the CEP Modeling Standards Gap” Robert Covington, CTO,

Rhysome, Inc. • 17:00 - 17:30 "Perspectives on DDS, CEP, and XTP Platforms" Angelo Corsaro, Product

Marketing Manager, PrismTech• 17:30 - 17:45 Closing Remarks

Complex Event -> Decision -> Service Response HQOperations

FieldOperations

Observation and Control Components

InEvent Input

u

ComplexEvent

Processing

InResponse

Outputu

Assessment and

Decision

Preprocess

SimpleEvent

Processing

Situation Object

Simple Response

Service Composition of Services

Complex Response

Sensor and Effects Management

Measurement

Field Processors

Data Structured Data Information

SOA

EDA

Role of a Complex Event Description Language (CEDL)

5 Events Events

Composite System LevelEvent Processing Engine

Complex Event Description Language

Representation

Query Patterns Complex Events

Complex EventProcessing Engine 1

(e.g. Rule-based)

Complex EventProcessing Engine 2

(e.g. SQL Extension)

Mapping to CEP Engine 1 Patterns

Mapping fromCEP Engine 1 Events

Mapping to CEP Engine 2 Patterns

Mapping fromCEP Engine 2Events

System Level EventsRequiring Response

Event Metamodel

Semantics