A FLEXIBLE EVENT-CONDITION-ACTION (ECA) RULE PROCESSING MECHANISM BASED ON A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE STRUCTURE

Xiang Li, Ying Qiao, Hongan Wang

2009

Abstract

Adding and deleting Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules, i.e. modifications of processing structures in an active database are expected to happen on-the-fly, to cause minimum impact on existing processing procedures of ECA rules. In this paper, we present a flexible ECA rule processing mechanism in active database. It uses a dynamically reconfigurable structure, called unit-mail graph (UMG) and a middleware, called Unit Modification and Management Layer (UMML) to localize the impact of adding and deleting ECA rules so as to support on-the-fly rule modification. The ECA rule processing mechanism can continue to work when the user adds or deletes the rules. This makes active database to be able to react to external events arriving at the system during rule modification. We also use a smart home environment to evaluate our work.

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Li X., Qiao Y. and Wang H. (2009). A FLEXIBLE EVENT-CONDITION-ACTION (ECA) RULE PROCESSING MECHANISM BASED ON A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE STRUCTURE . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-84-5, pages 291-294. DOI: 10.5220/0001987402910294


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Xiang Li and Ying Qiao and Hongan Wang},
title={A FLEXIBLE EVENT-CONDITION-ACTION (ECA) RULE PROCESSING MECHANISM BASED ON A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE STRUCTURE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={291-294},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001987402910294},
isbn={978-989-8111-84-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - A FLEXIBLE EVENT-CONDITION-ACTION (ECA) RULE PROCESSING MECHANISM BASED ON A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE STRUCTURE
SN - 978-989-8111-84-5
AU - Li X.
AU - Qiao Y.
AU - Wang H.
PY - 2009
SP - 291
EP - 294
DO - 10.5220/0001987402910294