Thanks to Prof. Pedro Bizarro (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Christoph Emmersberger (Senacor Technologies, Germany) for the announcement that the new Event Processing Technical Society “use case survey” is now up and running. EPTS wants to collect information on use cases to …
1. Classify scenarios to guide selecting an appropriate event processing technology
2. Inspire others with similar requirements on how to use event processing technology in their applications
3. Provide researchers and engineers information about how to improve the technology
The surveys asks questions on the following topics in case you need to prepare an answer: industry, functional area, deployment status, business drivers, effort cost, reference URLs (if available), event channels and data sources used for input and output, target dissemination characteristics, features and models used, performance characteristics, performance growth rates expected, enterprise characteristics (such as “high availability”), deployment constraints, and hurdles or areas for improvement.
Although the EPTS cancelled its symposium this year, the timing for this survey will hopefully mean that the EPTS Use Case Working Group will have some results in time for the next (March 2011) planned meeting. Meanwhile, project managers and team leads for CEP projects are recommended to complete the survey using whatever anonymity they want.
