Complex event processing

Complex Event Processing, or CEP, is an emerging technology for building and managing information systems. The goal of CEP is to enable the information contained in the events flowing through all of the layers of the enterprise IT infrastructure to be discovered, understood in terms of its impact on high level management goals and business processes, and acted upon in real time. This includes the events created by technologies such as RFID. CEP employs techniques such as detection of complex patterns of many events, event correlation and abstraction, event hierarchies, and relationships between events such as causality, membership, and timing, and event-driven processes.

See also

• Real-time computing CEP systems are typically real-time systems
• RFID Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, requires CEP
• ObjectStore, a commercial provider of a streaming event database for CEP

External link

• David Luckham, from Stanford University, wrote the first and most comprehensive book on CEP.
• David Luckham's CEP web site
• CEP Blog by Mark Palmer
• CEP and RFID by David Luckham and Mark Palmer in RFID Journal
• CEP Communityon Yahoo!