Supporting arbitrary Boolean subscriptions in distributed publish/subscribe systems

  • Authors:
  • Sven Bittner

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Waikato, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international Middleware doctoral symposium
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Publish/subscribe systems are currently gaining increasing attention in both academia and industry. One of the reasons for this interest is the wide applicability, in theory, of these systems, ranging from low-level monitoring of distributed systems to high-level applications for e-commerce. Whereas several current research activities deal with extensions of the main publish/subscribe functionalities, this work concentrates on the basic principles and foundations of these systems. This different focus originates from the insufficiency, in our opinion, of current solutions.This paper describes the research problems identified by the author and tackled within the associated PhD thesis. In particular, the corresponding PhD thesis will investigate the suitability of publish/subscribe systems internally supporting conjunctive subscription languages for scenarios requiring more expressive, i.e., arbitrary Boolean, subscriptions. This paper is structured as follows: After giving the context of the work more precisely and introducing the required concepts and foundations, we motivate our research problems and state two condensed research questions. Afterwards, we present our results so far and conclude by describing further steps we want to take to answer the identified questions.