Semantic Complex Event Processing for the Real-Time Knowledge-Driven World

Data and metadata are dependent on their sources: For many IT systems,that source is event-driven. Recently, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based automated business processes and services (dealing with one event at a time) backed up by a comprehensive set of persistence services (via database technology) have been challenged by requirements for automated Complex Event Processing (CEP).

Part 1 of this session covers the basics of CEP:

- What is CEP, and where does it fit? - How to identify new IT opportunities that utilize CEP

Then in Part 2, we look at another technology gaining ground, that of semantic processing and see how semantics can be applied to real-time events to improve classification, augment metadata, and increase the reach and value of event processing applications: - What are the semantic requirements of real-time event processing? - What are the application areas that are opened up by these techniques?

Paul Vincent works in TIBCO’s Business Optimization product area covering Emerging Technologies such as CEP, with a special interest in business rules, an area in which he has worked for many years. He is a contributor to the OMG PRR and W3C RIF standards efforts and has worked on rules projects in the US and Europe in financial services, government, defense, and manufacturing.

Elisa Kendall is President and CEO of Sandpiper Software. Ms. Kendall’s formal training in Situation Semantics coupled with extensive systems integration experience led her to architect Sandpiper’s innovative, standards-based approach to knowledge sharing through the use of ontologies. She is an active participant in the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment effort of the W3C and a key contributor to standards such as the Object Management Group’s Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM).