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A composite event is a set of events matching an event specification.
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Pioneering work on composite events was done in the HiPAC project [3] and the ideas were extended and refined in most proposals for active object-oriented databases during the early 1990s.
A composite event is composed according to an event specification (in an event algebra), where the composition is performed using a set of event operators such as disjunction, conjunction and sequence. More advanced event operators have been suggested in literature, e.g., [2,4,5].
The initiator of a composite event is the event initiating the composite event occurrence and the terminator is the event terminating the composite event occurrence.
Events contributing to composite events may carry parameters (e.g., temporal) in which the event is said to occur. Events contributing to composite events are also referred to as constituent events.
Composite events need to be composed according to some event context...
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Ericsson, A., Berndtsson, M., Mellin, J. (2009). Composite Event. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_514
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