A Homogeneous Reaction Rule Language for Complex Event Processing

Event-driven automation of reactive functionalities for complex event processing is an urgent need in today's distributed service-oriented architectures and Web-based event-driven environments. An important problem to be addressed is how to correctly and efficiently capture and process the event-based behavioral, reactive logic embodied in reaction rules, and combining this with other conditional decision logic embodied, e.g., in derivation rules. This paper elaborates a homogeneous integration approach that combines derivation rules, reaction rules and other rule types such as integrity constraints into the general framework of logic programming, the industrial-strength version of declarative programming. We describe syntax and semantics of the language, implement a distributed web-based middleware using enterprise service technologies and illustrate its adequacy in terms of expressiveness, efficiency and scalability through examples extracted from industrial use cases. The deve...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Adrian Paschke, Alexander Kozlenkov, Harold Boley
• Keywords: Complex Event Processing, CORR 2010, Derivation Rules, Education, Reaction Rule