Distributed event-based systems

Abstract

Today, services and data are integrated in ever new constellations, requiring easy, flexible and scalable integration of autonomous, heterogeneous components into complex systems at any time. Event-based architectures inherently decouple system components, because event-based components are not designed to work with other components in traditional request/reply mode, but divide communication from computation through asynchronous communication mechanisms via a dedicated notification service. The authors provide an in-depth description of event-based systems. They cover the complete spectrum of topics, ranging from a treatment of local event matching and distributed event forwarding algorithms, through a practical discussion of software engineering issues raised by the event-based style, to a presentation of state-of-the-art research topics in event-based systems, such as composite event detection and security. The book gives researchers a comprehensive overview of the area and offers lots of ideas for future research. In addition, it shows the power of event-based architectures in modern system design, encouraging professionals to exploit this te. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.