On integrating event definition and event detection

  • Authors:
  • Nadim Obeid;Raj B. K. N. Rao

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Jordan, Department of Computer Information Systems, King Abdullah II School for Information Technology, Amman, Jordan;COMADEM International, 307 Tiverton Road Selly Oak, B29 6DA, Birmingham, UK

  • Venue:
  • Knowledge and Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We develop, in this paper, a representation of time and events that supports a range of reasoning tasks such as monitoring and detection of event patterns which may facilitate the explanation of root cause(s) of faults. We shall compare two approaches to event definition: the active database approach in which events are defined in terms of the conditions for their detection at an instant, and the knowledge representation approach in which events are defined in terms of the conditions for their occurrence over an interval. We shall show the shortcomings of the former definition and employ a three-valued temporal first order nonmonotonic logic, extended with events, in order to integrate both definitions.