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Distributed Architectures for Event-Based Systems

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Reasoning in Event-Based Distributed Systems

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 347))

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Event-driven distributed systems have two important characteristics, which differentiate them from other system types: the existence of several software or hardware components that run simultaneously on different inter-networked nodes, and the use of events as the main vehicle to organize component intercommunication. Clearly, both attributes influence event-driven distributed architectures, which are discussed in this chapter. We start with presenting the event-driven software architecture, which describes various logical components and their roles in events generation, transmission, processing, and consumption. This is used in early phases of distributed event-driven systems’ development as a blueprint for the whole development process including concept, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. It also grounds important architectural concepts and highlights the challenges faced by event-driven distributed system developers. The core part of the chapter presents several system architectures, which capture the physical realization of event-driven distributed systems, more specifically the ways logical components are instantiated and placed on real machines. Important characteristics such as performance, efficient use of resources, fault tolerance, security, and others are strongly determined by the adopted system architecture and the technologies behind it. The most important research results are organized along five themes: complex event processing, Event-Driven Service Oriented Architecture (ED-SOA), Grid architecture, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture, and Agent architecture. For each topic, we present previous work, describe the most recent achievements, highlight their advantages and limitations, and indicate future research trends in event-driven distributed system architectures.

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Cristea, V., Pop, F., Dobre, C., Costan, A. (2011). Distributed Architectures for Event-Based Systems. In: Helmer, S., Poulovassilis, A., Xhafa, F. (eds) Reasoning in Event-Based Distributed Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 347. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19724-6_2

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