Processing nested complex sequence pattern queries over event streams

Abstract

Complex event processing (CEP) has become increasingly important for tracking and monitoring applications ranging from healthcare, supply chain management to surveillance. These monitoring applications submit complex event queries to track sequences of events that match a given pattern. As these systems mature the needfor increasingly complex nested sequence queries arises, while thestate-of-the-art CEP systems mostly focus on the execution of flat sequence queries only. In this paper, we now introduce an iterative execution strategy for nested CEP queries composed of sequence, negation, AND and OR operators. Lastly the promise of applying selective caching of intermediate results to optimize the execution. Our experimental study using real-world stock trades evaluates the performance of our proposed iterative execution strategy for differentquery types.