Critical event processing and its regulatory application

Abstract

This paper discusses the use of complex event processing (CEP) technologies to propose an overall infrastructure for a real-time critical event management system (CEMS). This system allows users to obtain interested and meaningful information from large numbers of primitive events captured from the AUTO-ID devices, such as barcode, RFID and etc, in real time. A hierarchical structure for the critical event definition is proposed in this paper for better understanding of the different event types. The CEMS framework provides an event graphical representation with Petri net for the critical events, allows user to define and edit the critical events easily in an intuitionistic way. A regulatory case is also provided in this paper to demonstrate how the CEMS applies.