Stream data processing: A quality of service perspective. Modeling, scheduling, load shedding, and complex event processing (Q2379084)

The motivation for this book comes from the need for applications that can process data continuously from one or more sources, with good performance in terms of satisfying the requirements of Quality of Service (response time, memory usage and throughput). The book consist of twelve chapters and a comprehensive list of references (Introduction; Overview of data stream processing; DSMS challenges; Literature overview; Modeling continuous queries over data streams; Scheduling strategies for CQs; Load shedding in data stream management systems; \(\text{NFM}^i\): an inter-domain network fault management system; Integrating stream and complex event processing; MavStream: development of a DSMS prototype; Integrating CEP with a DSMS; Conclusions and future directions). The first three chapters introduce the reader into problem areas and characteristics of stream data processing. The fourth chapter gives a survey of the work already done in stream and complex event processing, introducing most of the research systems and some commercial prototypes. Each of the next three chapters (Chapters 5--7) concentrates on a particular problem and shows the technical solution of the respective problem proposed by the authors. Chapter 8 presents a motivating application from the telecommunication domain (an inter-domain network fault management system), and analyzes the critical requirements underlining it. Chapter 9 shows the similarities and differences between complex event processing and stream processing, and the development of an integrated model with a general purpose architecture having the benefits of both research directions. The following two chapters, 10 and 11, analyze the design and implementation details of two prototypes (MavStream and MavEStream). The material of this book can be used for a graduate course, as a reference book for the researcher familiar with this domain, or as a very good introductory text for people interested in the areas of stream and complex event processing.