Event-driven rules for sensing and responding to business situations

Abstract

Event-based systems have been developed and used to implement networked and adaptive business environments based on loosely coupled systems in order to respond faster to critical business events. In this paper, we introduce a rule management system which is able to sense and evaluate events in order to respond to changes in a business environment or customer needs. It enables users to graphically compose comprehensive event-triggered rules, which can be used to control the processing of services. For the definition of a rule set, users can independently define event conditions, event patterns and correlation-related information which can be combined for modeling complex business situations. We have fully implemented the proposed system with a serviceoriented approach and illustrate our approach with an order management business case.

User-oriented rule management for event-based applications

“…UC4 Decision is a commercial CEP platform that is based on Sense-and-Respond Infrastructure (SARI) as originally proposed by Schiefer et al [20] at DEBS'07. In the following, we give an overview to the general architecture and core event-processing facilities of UC4 Decision; our approach to user-oriented rule management as presented in Section 4 and 5 of this paper will set up on these concepts and extends them towards manageability for the different user groups within an enterprise.…”

“…In the following, we give an overview to the general architecture and core event-processing facilities of UC4 Decision; our approach to user-oriented rule management as presented in Section 4 and 5 of this paper will set up on these concepts and extends them towards manageability for the different user groups within an enterprise. For more detailed discussions on UC4 Decision/SARI, its rule language, its approach to distributed event processing and data management, the interested reader may refer to related work [18][19] [20].…”

FaultTolerant Adaptive Mobile Agent System using Dynamic Role based Access Control

“…[12] discuss the efficient methods of using temporal RBAC, [13] gives an extension security architecture for sharing information using role-based delegation. The event -driven rules for sensing and responding to business situation using agents is done in [14], which uses event-triggers for processing the services. [15] shows an implementation of rule based agents in the semantic web.…”

Correlating Business Events for Event-Triggered Rules

“…While the typical users of event stream queries are developers, event-triggered rules try to describe event patterns on a more abstract level and link event-patterns with business actions. Event-triggered rules require event correlation for the detection of event patterns over a time period as well as for tracing the actions triggered by rules [13].…”