Principles and Applications of Distributed Event-Based Systems

The subject is very hot as "smart" systems are finding applications in many enterprises, including finance, risk management, fraud detection, supply chain management, environmental monitoring and warning systems, marine security, health care, cars and homes, traffic control, information dissemination, and network management, among others. This book begins with an extended preface addressing the need for standardization of terminology and some sorting out of acronyms and jargon in a multifaceted field that derives from and must integrate so many other fields. Following are chapters discussing event models and generic system architectures; quality-of-service aspects of publish-subscribe middleware and event-based messaging systems; novel architectures (knowledge-based networking, parallel clusters, service-oriented architectures, dynamic adaptive systems); approaches to mobile and ubiquitous systems; and solutions for mobile ad-hoc networks. Editors Hinze and Buchmann are affiliated respectively with the U. of Waikato, New Zealand and Technische U. Darmstadt, Germany); the 19 contributed chapters are from teams based in about 12 countries, including the US. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)