Keynote Speaker Opher Etzion, Senior Technical Staff Member Lead Architect, Event Processing Application Integration Middleware Division IBM Software Group

Talk Title

Event Processing – An Architecture View

Abstract

The first generation of event processing products, currently pervasive in the market, is centred on the notion of monolithic event processing engines that execute collection of rules, scripts or queries, depending on the engine’s API orientation. The first generation products have challenges in several areas, such as: coping with complexity, supporting high-throughput, scalability in a massively distributed environment, and providing different quality of service in processing, supporting real-time constraints. Analysts now indicate that a second generation of event processing is emerging. Some vendors already reveal some of the characteristics of the second generation.

1. The talk will start by surveying existing architectures, used by current vendors, and point out the challenges that the first generation solutions is facing.
2. It will then concentrate on the principles of the second generation, from architecture point of view, move from monolithic engines to agent architecture, in which each agent is lightweight, carries a single function, and may have individual quality of service properties.
3. There will be a drill down to the various components of the architecture.
4. There will be a discussion about standard activity in this area.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Opher Etzion is IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, and Lead Architect for event processing technologies in IBM Software Group (AIM). Previously he has been a Senior Manager in IBM Research division, managed a department that focused around foundation and applications to complex event processing. In parallel he is also an adjunct faculty member at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He has authored or co-authored around 70 papers in refereed journals and conferences, on topics related to: active databases, temporal databases, rule-base systems, complex event processing and autonomic computing, and co-authored the book “Temporal Database – Research and Practice”, Springer-Verlag, 1998. Prior to joining IBM in 1997, he has been a faculty member and Founding Head of the Information Systems Engineering department at the Technion, and held professional and managerial positions in industry and in the Israel Air-Force.