Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Event Processing and the Survival of the Modern Enterprise
Four Basic Questions about Events
What are Events and Which Ones Are Important?
Why Invest in Event Processing?
Know How Well You're Doing
Use All Event Sources
Detect When What You Need to Know Happens
Event Processing in Use
The Human Element and Other Sources of Errors
Extract What You Want to Know
Getting Started
Chapter 2: Sixty Years of Event Processing
Event-Driven Simulation
Networks
Active Databases
Middleware
The Enterprise Service Bus
Chaos in the Marketing of Information Systems
Service Oriented Architecture
Event-Driven Architecture
Summary: Event Processing 1950–2010
Chapter 3: First Concepts in Event Processing
New Technology Begets New Problems
What Is an Event?
Event Clouds
Levels of Events and Event Analysis
Remark on Standards for Business Events
Event Streams
Processing the Event Cloud
Complex Event Processing and Systems that Use It
Discussion: Immutability of Events
Summary
Chapter 4: The Rise of Commercial Event Processing
The Dawn of CEP
Four Stages of CEP
Simple CEP (1999 – 2007)
CEP versus Custom Coding
Creeping CEP (2004 - 2012)
Business Activity Monitoring
Awareness and Education in Event Processing
Languages for Event Processing
Dashboards and Human-Computer Interfaces
Human-Computer Interfaces
CEP Becomes a Recognized Information Technology (2009 – 2020)
Event Processing Standards
Ubiquitous CEP
Chapter 5: Markets and Emerging Markets for CEP
Market Areas
Financial Systems, Operations, and Services
Fraud Detection
Transportation
Security and Command and Control
Command and Control for Security
Healthcare
Energy
Summary
Chapter 6: Patterns of Events
Events and Event Objects
Overloading Two Meanings
Patterns and Pattern Matching
Single Event Patterns
Processing Patterns by Machine
Patterns of Multiple Events using Operators
Event Patterns and State
Event Patterns and Time
Causality between Events
Repetitive and Unbounded Behavior
Requirements for an Event Pattern Language
Correctness and Other Questions
Chapter 7: Making Sense of Chaos in Real Time: Part 1
Event Type Spaces
Restricting the Types of Event Inputs May not be an Option
The Expanding Input Principle: Always Plan for New Types of Event Inputs and Event Outputs
Architecting Event Processing Strategies
Gross Filters
Prioritization: Split Streaming, Topics, Sentiments, and Other Attributes
Complex Filtering and Prioritization Using Event Patterns
Summary
Chapter 8: Making Sense of Chaos in Real Time: Part 2
Abstract Events and Views
Levels of Abstraction and Views
Organizing Views
Computing Abstractions by Event Pattern Maps
Computable Event Hierarchies
Flexibility of Hierarchy Definitions
Drill Down and Event Analysis
Summary: Dealing with Information Overload
Chapter 9: The Future of Event Processing
Taking Stock
The Evolution of Holistic Event Processing Systems
Crossing Boundaries
The Beginnings of Holistic Event Processing Systems
Future Air Travel Management Systems
Monitoring Human Activities
Pandemic Watch Systems
Monitoring the Consequences
Solving Gridlock in the Metropolis
Monitoring Your Personal Information Footprint
Summary: The Future of Complex Event Processing
Appendix: Glossary of Terminology: Event Processing Technical Society
(Event Processing Glossary – Version 2.0)
About the Author
Index
