SemTech2010: its all in the meaning
Posted by Paul Vincent
I was reminded of the importance of semantics at the coffee break at this morning’s Semantic Technology Conference when I watched a fellow attendee nearly succeed in unscrewing the tap on the coffee urn (instead of simply pulling the tap). Meaning is everything. Meanwhile, Harold Boley, Adrian Paschke and myself are presenting this afternoon on the possibilities of Semantic CEP. This morning 2 of the W3C RIF co-chairs presented on the W3C Rule Interchange Format and other rule standards, to a good crowd that seemed at least 10x in number compared to the related OMG event earlier this week.
I’ve only had a brief wander around the exhibition hall here; some of the ontologists involved in “government projects” mentioned that good use was being madein those projects of TIBCO BusinessEvents CEP technology. I’m not convinced the semantics world is ready to wake up to “events” and “event processing” yet though (with a few honorable exceptions). I guess we’ll find out later 
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Complex Event Processing (CEP), Meetings and events, Semantics | 24 June 2010 |
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By Rainer von Ammon, July 28, 2010 @ 08:25
I’m not so sure whether it is a good idea to use such undefined terms like Semantic CEP, Intelligent CEP etc., especially as conference or workshop titles. Others you know don’t like CEP at all and call it only Event Processing because “Complex” could allegedly scare customers… Just to avoid misunderstanding: I’m evangelizing the term Ubiquitous CEP, but I’m not the inventor of the term, David Luckham has used it first in his forecast, I only try to define what U-CEP could mean:-)
By Paul Vincent, July 28, 2010 @ 10:53
Hi Rainer - of course, all CEP systems have meaning / semantics, but there are specific semantics technologies that are not mainstream that can help event processing as much as regular data processing…
We use “CEP” (or as some Europeans call it, “sep”) as Prof Luckham coined that term in Power of Events.
As to ubiquitous - I think that is the goal: de facto event processing…
Cheers
By Peter, August 3, 2010 @ 06:38
Hey Paul,
Excellent comment on the ebizQ Forum, Paul, and I would like to get you officially signed up. Please email me if interested.
Best,
Peter