Principles and Applications of Distributed Event-Based Systems: (Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing)

Recently, the event-based paradigm, a burgeoning technology receiving attention in research as well as industry, has gained momentum in the commercial world causing a need for further research in the field. Principles and Applications of Distributed Event-Based Systems showcases event-based systems in real-world applications, providing an overview of relevant terminology and content approachable for readers from a variety of backgrounds. Containing expert international contributions, this advanced publication provides professionals, researchers, and students in systems design with a rich compendium of latest applications in the field.

About the Author :
Annika Hinze is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, where she heads the research group on Information Systems and Databases. She received her Master's from the Technical University Berlin in the area of Technical Mathematics. Annika received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2003. In her PhD thesis, she proposed an adaptive event-based system. Annika's current research focuses on context-aware systems, eventbased systems, interaction design and mobility. She combines methods from Information Systems with Formal Methods and Human Computer Interaction. During 2009, while this book was prepared, Annika was a visiting Professor at the Humboldt University Berlin for the area of context-aware systems. Annika was a co-chair for ODBASE and APCCM, and served in various roles for the event community's central workshop/conference DEBS. Alejandro Buchmann is Professor in the Department of Computer Science of Technische Universität Darmstadt since 1991 and is responsible for the area of Databases and Distributed Systems. He studied chemical engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and received his PhD from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1980. He was an Assistant/Associate Professor from 1980 to 1986 at IIMAS/UNAM and held positions as a senior researcher at Computer Corporation of America, Cambridge Mass. (86-89) and GTE Laboratories, Waltham Mass. (89-91) before joining TUD. He was responsible for the graduate research program in enabling technologies for e-commerce at TUD (1998- 2007) and initiated a research program in Cooperative, Adaptive and Responsive Monitoring in Mixed Mode Environments (2006-). Alejandro’s current research interests are in the areas of event-based and reactive systems, heterogeneous distributed systems, middleware, performance evaluation, peer-to-peer systems and new paradigms for data management and information processing in Cyberphysical systems. Alejandro’s involvement with event based systems dates back to the late 1980’s in the HiPAC project on active databases. Subsequent work at TU Darmstadt included distributed event based systems, temporal uncertainty in distributed event systems, quality of service and transactional properties, content based publish/subscribe and concept based pub/sub for heterogeneous event systems, as well as performance modeling and benchmarking of event based systems. Alex has been involved as general and/or program chair in ICDE 01 and ICDE08, VLDB 96, SIGMOD 98, DEBS 08 and AmI 07, and is on the editorial board of several journals. He has held visiting positions at UT Austin, ICSI Berkeley, HP Labs Palo Alto, University of Virginia, Ecole Politechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), IIT Bombay, and Caltech.