“The
primary objective of the Continual Queries project aims at
investigating the update monitoring problems in Internet-scale
distibuted information systems and developing toolkit and an integrated
set of techniques for monitoring updates for building intelligent and
adaptive sentinel systems in distributed opern environements such as
Internet or intranets.”

“We experiment the results of the Continual Queries project with
logistics applications, and explore the research issues of combining
conventional pull-based query answering services with push-enabled
event-driven update monitoring services.”

- goto
originally Posted to cep.weblogger.com by David Soul on 1/15/05; 4:26:14 PM
in the CEP section.

Tags: CEP, design, filters, predictions, systems

“The
Caravel project deals with the general problem of information
integration in networks of autonomous, heterogeneous information
sources.”

“Information sources include data sources and program sources and
may be replicated.  Data sources may be structured or semi-structured.”

“one major application domain of the Caravel project is environmental information systems.”

- goto
originally Posted to cep.weblogger.com by David Soul on 1/15/05; 4:20:41 PM
in the CEP section.

Tags: CEP, design, filters, predictions, systems

“On the Path to the Real-time Enterprise” by Larry Goldman (Published in DM Review February 2004 and available on DMreview.com)

“BAM is an essential part of RTE, as it provides the infrastructure necessary for real-time access to the key performance indicators that run and monitor the business. ”

“The event processing component of BAM systems filters through myriad events occurring at an organization and, through user defined business rules, identifies those events that are most important.”

“While event processing is the key foundation of a BAM system, the user interface for a BAM application is the most critical component”

Tags: BAM, filters

“Exploiting Your Own Potential,”  – A short note by David McCoy (VP and Gartner Fellow) and Roy Schulte (VP and Distinguished Analyst Business Activity Monitoring {BAM} and Complex Event Processing {CEP}in Siemens Keynotes Magazine, February 2004

“BAM and CEP point to a simple truth — a fact about anything (business process mistakes, opportunities) is often most valuable when it is fresh (e.g., real-time) and when it is shared.”

“BAM is visible to business people, and provides clear benefits. Under the covers is a more fundamental change — applying the concept of CEP to real-time data for business purposes.” <emphasis added> (pdf - goto )

Tags: BAM

BAM Keeps A Finger On The Pulse: business-activity monitoring provides real-time insight to improve operations

According to this article in Optimize (Business Strategy & Execution for CIOs) business-activity monitoring can deliver real-time data interpreted in context IF companies first define what needs monitoring, what variables need to be considered, whom to alert to problems, and how best to alert them.- goto

originally Posted to cep.weblogger.com by David Soul on 1/9/05; 7:15:23 PM
in the CEP section.

Tags: BAM

“Standardizing event management to streamline your on demand operating environment”

According to the introduction:

“Today,
IBM Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) — a set of modular
event-processing components — delivers the following functions:

• Event transport
• Event bus distribution
• Event persistence
• Event subscription
• Event updates
• Event queries
• Event metadata

“This paper outlines IBM’s strategy for CEI
implementation and describes how IBM CEI can help you manage your IT
environment effectively. It first offers basic information about CEI
and the problems it addresses, and then provides details about the CEI
architecture, interfaces, operations and delivery to enable you to plan
your system’s architectures around a solution that uses CEI.” <pdf> – goto

Tags: CEP

Paul Pangaro on HCI and Interaction Design

Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design This page provides pointers into content on pangaro.com that relates to the theory and practice of human-computer interaction and interaction design. Cybernetics is, at its core, the science of purpose: it enables the formal modeling of human goals in complex situations, including conversation, decision making, and computer-mediated collaboration. Below <use the goto link> are examples of software implementations based on a cybernetic framework together with articles, course descriptions, and design proposals that show how cybernetics is an effective tool for harnessing computation in service of human goals.

Tags: HCI

Cybernetics of Human Computer Interaction

The Cybernetics of HCI: A Pragmatic Approach

This
video clip (approx 1 1/2 hours) gives a good introduction to the
circular causality studied by cybernetics and why it is more than just
control theory.  Lecture by Paul Pangaro, Sun Microsystems  

Seminar on People, Computers, and Design
Stanford University February 15, 2001

A discussion of cybernetics for HCI is pragmatic by nature because
cybernetics is a “science of interactions” for which human-computer
interaction is a subset. The ability of cybernetics to model the
progression and limitations of human communications holds insight for
difficult problems such as HCI design.

Tags: cybernetics, design, discipline, feedback, goals, HCI, insight, intelligence, knowledge, learning, model, semantics, software, systems

A sample chapter (provided courtesy of Addison Wesley)
from David Luckham’s book “The Power of Events : an Introduction to
Complex Event Processing in Distributed Environments” is available on
the informit web site.

Topics covered in this chapter include:
Events everywhere in our information systems:

• The Internet and the growth of global communication spaghetti
• Layers upon layers in enterprise system architectures
• Global electronic trade—understanding what is happening
• Agile systems—future reality or just a dream
• Can an open electronic society defend itself?
• The gathering storm—global coordination or global chaos

Tags: Books (CEP), CEP