from collision detection: Are smarter people better at ignoring things?
A team testing the "visual working memory"  of a group of subjects by getting them to look at red and blue bricks in a picture found, much their  suprise, that  people with the largest capacity  VWM weren't actually retaining lots of additional information, but infact were simply selective in what they retained....or possibly the real genius comes in stripping out inessential information (filtering) and holding only in mind the red bricks that the researchers asked them to pay attention to.

This, of course, is exactly the type of thing that we would expect a "viable" system should do... keep the requisite variety in balance by filtering .... one of the problems with our corporate IT systems is they are built with an underlying assumption that management's problem is in retaining huge quatities of raw data ... so the database will step up, and by george... it will store everything.   Making subsequent analysis just a tad difficult sometimes.... in the move to real time worlds in business, there is a lesson to be learned here.

In contrast to traditional database systems active database systems management are designed to automatically react to events....   more »

a prototype content-based publish/subscribe messaging system named AMS that takes an Active Networks approach...   more »

Existing research on event-based middleware for wireless networks has mainly focused on what may be termed nomadic applications. .... In contrast we focus on collaborative applications.   more »

The technical basis of Siena is an innovatiove type of network service called content-based networking ....   more »

developed from the Rapide concepts of 1. causal event modeling 2. event patterns and pattern matching, and 3. event pattern maps and constraints   more »

effort focuses on developing a new technology for building large-scale, distributed multi-language systems ...   more »

offers asynchronous, decoupled, event-based communication between distributed and heterogeneous applications   more »

application level multicast and anycast...   more »

for retrieving XML data, querying and monitoring...   more »