Design of an Event Engine for Next Generation CEMIS: A Use Case

Abstract

The next generation of CEMIS is supposed to breed applications for strategic environmental management that are pro-active and highly automated. Besides a new quality of decision support, such a system might be capable of taking unsupervised decisions and actions in certain situations. In either way, such systems should be capable of unsupervised recognition of system disturbances and be able to set-up alarm messages in order to claim human decision for taking appropriate action. In this paper, we will present our design considerations for a pro-active component for our new CEMIS. This component will be an event engine that is capable of frequently, autonomously processing predefined monitoring tasks.