Viewpoints in complex event processing: industrial experience report

  • Authors:
  • Ingmar Kellner;Ludger Fiege

  • Affiliations:
  • Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany;Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In the automation industry an increasing need for integration exists, spanning from field level to enterprise resource planning. An important requirement is the adaptability of the involved production processes, because industry must be able to react quickly to new situations and challenges. Complex Event Processing (CEP) is a promising technology to detect and react to such situations. However, current approaches for CEP often mix the derivation of high-level business events with their interpretation and follow a bottom - up development that is not focused on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Consequently, maintainability and the required adaptability are hard to achieve. In this paper, we investigate the separation of two viewpoints in a CEP application: i) modeling critical business situations with the reactions to be taken and ii) aggregation of the necessary base data to distill key performance indicators. Additionally, we present a methodology for the engineering of these viewpoints. This gives guidance for the development of the underlying eventing infrastructure and provides a goal/KPI-oriented approach.