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An architecture and construction of a business event manager

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Temporal Databases: Research and Practice

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A business event is an happening of interest in the business world. A business event represents a level of abstraction that is at much higher level than the event paradigm used in systems such as graphical user interfaces or database triggers. This paper argues that the business event management requires services such as persistence, auditing, and sharing which are not provided in a satisfactory manner in current systems. This paper presents an architecture and construction of a novel business event manager which supports the above services. The event manager supports external, database and temporal events in a uniform fashion. A SQL-like language is proposed as an interface to the event manager. This language provides consistent interface for defining event metadata and event detection. As event histories can naturally be modeled as time series, temporal database services are utilized for storing event metadata and histories. Furthermore, we show that the proposed framework is capable of supporting a rich variety of temporal events such as the context dependent and relative temporal events.

This work was supported by the Applied Mathematical Sciences Research Program of the Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC03-76SF00098.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley, 94720, Berkeley, CA

    Ajit K. Patankar

  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Information and Computing Sciences Division, USA

    Ajit K. Patankar

  3. Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, USA

    Arie Segev

  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Information and Computing Sciences Division, USA

    Arie Segev

  5. Center for Strategic Technology, Andersen Consulting, Palo Alto, CA

    Ajit K. Patankar

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Patankar, A.K., Segev, A. (1998). An architecture and construction of a business event manager. In: Etzion, O., Jajodia, S., Sripada, S. (eds) Temporal Databases: Research and Practice. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1399. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053706

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