User-oriented rule management for event-based applications

Event-pattern rules are the foundation of Complex Event Processing (CEP) applications. Yet, despite the vast potential CEP offers for agile business applications, its practical relevance rises and falls with the manageability within the organizational framework conditions of an enterprise. In this paper we present a novel rule-management framework for the event-based system UC4 Decision. It caters to the needs of power users as well as business users: Power users model infrastructural rules based on visual decision graphs and a dedicated expression language. Business users compose rule logic in a simplified web interface from abstracted, configurable building blocks. © 2011 ACM.