Temporal Perspectives in Event Processing

Abstract

Event Processing is an emerging area in the IT industry, evident by the burst of products, and attention given by analysts, venture capitals and enterprises. One of the notable characteristics of event processing is its close relation to temporal aspects. One can view event processing as getting a decision that is based on looking at the history of transitions in the domain of discourse. This glance on the event history involves multiple aspects of temporal operations; In this section we’ll explain briefly the main concepts and architecture of event processing, and show the touch points between event processing and temporal aspects, the rest of the paper will deal in details with the various issues.