Increasing the Expressiveness of Subscriptions and Advertisements in Distributed Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems

This paper gives a synopsis of the author’s PhD project. In order to address a broad range of conference participants, we have specifically decided to give a general, rather non-technical outline of the tackled research problems. This decision is reflected in the overall structure of this paper. After introducing the general research area and the context of the project, we outline the three research problems that are addressed within the associated dissertation. We then give a conceptional overview about the research that has already been carried out but also about the remaining steps that need to be undertaken. We conclude this paper by stepping back from the actual dissertation and relating its contributions to the broader research community.