
With the rapid expansion of the Internet over the last 20 years, event-based distributed systems are playing an increasingly important role in a broad range of application domains, including enterprise management, environmental monitoring, information dissemination, finance,...

Introduction to Reasoning in Event-based Distributed Systems.- Distributed architectures for event-based systems.- Languages for Complex Event Processing and Querying Surveyed.- Complex Event Relational Algebra (CERA) and its Application to XChangeEQ.- Rule-Based Reasoning...