Abstract
Applying imperative programming techniques to process event streams, like those generated by multi-touch devices and 3D cameras, has significant engineering drawbacks. Declarative approaches solve these problems but have not been able to scale on multicore systems while providing guaranteed response times.
We propose PARTE, a parallel scalable complex event processing engine which allows a declarative definition of event patterns and provides soft real-time guarantees for their recognition. It extends the state-saving Rete algorithm and maps the event matching onto a graph of actor nodes. Using a tiered event matching model, PARTEprovides upper bounds on the detection latency. Based on the domain-specific constraints, PARTE's design relies on a combination of 1) lock-free data structures; 2) safe memory management techniques; and 3) message passing between Rete nodes. In our benchmarks, we measured scalability up to 8 cores, outperforming highly optimized sequential implementations.
We propose PARTE, a parallel scalable complex event processing engine which allows a declarative definition of event patterns and provides soft real-time guarantees for their recognition. It extends the state-saving Rete algorithm and maps the event matching onto a graph of actor nodes. Using a tiered event matching model, PARTEprovides upper bounds on the detection latency. Based on the domain-specific constraints, PARTE's design relies on a combination of 1) lock-free data structures; 2) safe memory management techniques; and 3) message passing between Rete nodes. In our benchmarks, we measured scalability up to 8 cores, outperforming highly optimized sequential implementations.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | AGERE! '12 Proceedings of the 2nd edition on Programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, agents, and decentralized control abstractions |
| Place of Publication | New York, NY, USA |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Pages | 35-46 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-1630-9 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2012 |
| Event | AGERE! 2012, 2nd International Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control - Arizona, Tucson, United States Duration: 21 Oct 2012 → 22 Oct 2012 |
Publication series
| Name | AGERE! '12 Proceedings of the 2nd edition on Programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, agents, and decentralized control abstractions |
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Workshop
| Workshop | AGERE! 2012, 2nd International Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Tucson |
| Period | 21/10/12 → 22/10/12 |
Keywords
- multimodal interaction
- gesture recognition
- Rete
- actors
- soft real-time guarantees
- nonblocking
- complex event processing
- multicore