Generic Architecture of Complex Event Processing Systems

In recent years, there has been a growing need for the use of active systems. Active systems perform automatic actions that may be reactive, such as responding to provided stimuli. They may also perform automatic actions that are proactive, such as predicting possible phenomena. While earliest active systems were directed to databases (Dayal U. et al. 1988, Widom & Ceri, 1996), a current major need for such active functionality covers other areas such as Business Activity Monitoring aBsTRaCT