http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog A journal about cybernetics, systems thinking, general systems theory, and the practice of effective management. en-us Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:07 -0800 Complex Event Processing Blogware dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/28/1727872.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/28/1727872.html Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:36:22 -0800 <a title="collision detection: Are smarter people better at ignoring things?" href="http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2005/11/people_frequent.html">from collision detection: Are smarter people better at ignoring things?</a><br>A team testing the "visual working memory"&nbsp; of a group of subjects by getting them to look at red and blue bricks in a picture found, much their&nbsp; suprise, that&nbsp; people with the largest capacity&nbsp; 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.<br><br><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">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.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.</span><br><br> Human error Cybernetics memory cognition dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676844.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676844.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:56:19 -0800 In contrast to traditional database systems active database systems management are designed to automatically react to events.... Active database technologies dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676841.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676841.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:53:17 -0800 a prototype content-based publish/subscribe messaging system named AMS that takes an Active Networks approach... Complex Event Processing dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676838.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676838.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:49:54 -0800 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. Research Group or Project middleware dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676835.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676835.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:46:56 -0800 The technical basis of Siena is an innovatiove type of network service called content-based networking .... Research Group or Project SIENA dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676832.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676832.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:43:44 -0800 developed from the Rapide concepts of 1. causal event modeling 2. event patterns and pattern matching, and 3. event pattern maps and constraints Research Group or Project CEP Stanford dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676831.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676831.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:40:59 -0800 effort focuses on developing a new technology for building large-scale, distributed multi-language systems ... Language for CEP Research Group or Project Stanford RAPIDE dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676829.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676829.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:38:12 -0800 offers asynchronous, decoupled, event-based communication between distributed and heterogeneous applications Research Group or Project CORBA dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676826.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676826.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:35:40 -0800 application level multicast and anycast... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676825.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676825.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:31:19 -0800 for retrieving XML data, querying and monitoring... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676820.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676820.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:28:36 -0800 aims to provide a new and powerful event-based architecture for electronic business applications... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676819.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676819.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:25:47 -0800 The LSAM project is developing the middleware infrastructure to support scalable distributed information services.... Research Group or Project middleware dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676817.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676817.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:23:14 -0800 Smart Delivery of Fresh Information ... Our vision of a civilized Infosphere goes beyond just gathering, storing, and retrieving increasing amounts of information..... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676816.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676816.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:18:56 -0800 an open source project that researches fundamental issues pertaining to distributed middleware systems... Research Group or Project middleware dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676814.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676814.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:16:25 -0800 A big challenge to build content based publish-subscdribe systems is to solve the trade-off between (matching) performance and the expressiveness of the publication and subscriptions language they can support. Our research work focuses on designing scalable pattern-matching algorithms which enable powerful subscription languages on complex data. .. Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676812.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676812.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:14:35 -0800 In short, SPARC allows space physicists to conduct team science on a global scale. It is the realization of the ''net'' -- real-time access to a world of instruments, models, and colleagues ... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676810.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676810.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:11:35 -0800 The focus of Opera group research is the design and deployment of open, large-scale, widely distributed systems. Two major thrusts are in the areas of asynchronous middleware... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676801.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676801.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:53:15 -0800 an event-based middleware framework that can be used to 'organically' fuse together, rather than simply bind, dynamic-, loosely-coupled components.... Research Group or Project Java dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676795.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676795.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:49:32 -0800 focusing on getting information to the right place at the right time.... Research Group or Project IBM middleware dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676658.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676658.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:07:56 -0800 ECho is an event delivery middleware system developed at Georgia Tech... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676657.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676657.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:06:12 -0800 Dragon is a powful midleware that can create ad hoc event driven system ... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676654.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676654.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:04:12 -0800 This project focuses on the research of an innovatiive event dissemination platform to ease the development of distributed applications. ... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676652.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676652.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:02:31 -0800 The objective of DAOS is to unbundle the concepts of 'Active Object Systems' [Buchmann94] on behalf of the CORBA platform.' ... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676649.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676649.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:00:35 -0800 DACE: Distributed Asynchronous Computing Environment... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676648.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676648.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:59:08 -0800 "Conditional Messaging&nbsp;and &nbsp;Dependency-Spheres are novel extensions to standard middleware for messaging and object transaction processing."<br> <p>"Conditional Messaging allows an application ... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676647.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676647.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:57:38 -0800 "The primary objective of the Continual Queries project aims at investigating the update monitoring problems in Internet-scale distibuted information systems ... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676644.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676644.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:54:53 -0800 "The Caravel project deals with the general problem of information integration in networks of autonomous, heterogeneous information sources." <p>"Information sources ... Research Group or Project dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676642.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676642.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:51:59 -0800 it provides the infrastructure necessary for real-time access to the key performance indicators ... BAM (business activity monitoring) BAM RTE dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676641.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676641.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:48:38 -0800 BAM and CEP point to a simple truth — a fact about anything (business process mistakes, opportunities) is often most valuable when it is fresh... BAM (business activity monitoring) BAM CEP dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676638.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/15/1676638.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:42:31 -0800 BAM Keeps A Finger On The Pulse: business-activity monitoring provides real-time insight to improve operations... BAM (business activity monitoring) BAM