Event sequence processing: new models and optimization techniques

  • Authors:
  • Mo Liu;Elke A. Rundensteiner

  • Affiliations:
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute;Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Fourth SIGMOD PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Many modern applications, including online financial feeds, tag-based mass transit systems and RFID-based supply chain management systems transmit real-time data streams. There is a need for a special-purpose event stream processing technology to analyze this vast amount of sequential multi-dimensional data to enable online, operational decision making. Existing techniques such as traditional online analytical processing (OLAP) systems are not designed for real-time pattern-based operations, while state-of-the-art Complex Event Processing (CEP) systems designed for sequence detection do not support OLAP operations. Supporting complex pattern queries at different concept and pattern hierarchies must be devised by providing efficient computation and data sharing. In this dissertation, we propose a novel E-Cube model that combines CEP and OLAP techniques for multi-dimensional event pattern analysis at different abstraction levels. Further, we go beyond the linear sequence pattern queries targeted by ECube core system towards supporting an expressive composite pattern query language (composed of arbitrarily nested sequence, negation, recursion, AND and OR operators) to express powerful pattern matching requests.