Agenda
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        Brief summary of the Seminar
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        Session on future Research Directions
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        Follow-on activities
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 Dagstuhl Center
       The Center promotes fundamental and applied research, 
      continuing and advanced academic education, and the 
      transfer of knowledge between those involved in the research 
      side and application side of informatics. 
     
      The key instrument for promoting research are the Dagstuhl 
      Seminars, which bring together internationally renowned 
      leading scientists for the purpose of exploring a cutting-edge 
      informatics topic. The friendly and open climate at the 
      conference center promotes a culture of communication and 
      exchange among the seminar participants. 
     
      The non-profit Center is a member of the  Leibniz Association 
      and is funded jointly by the German federal government and a 
      number of state governments. 
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 43 Participants from the following organisations
             Academia                             Academia (continued)
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                                                        Imperial College London 
                  Universidade Nova de Lisboa 
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                                                        Georgia Institute of Technology 
                  University of Skövde                 
                                                         Uppsala University 
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                  University of Coimbra                
                                                         ASU - Tempe 
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                  Universität München                  
                                                         FhG - ISST Berlin 
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                  TU Darmstadt                         
                                                         Univ. California - Los Angeles 
                                                  
                  Universität Mannheim               Industry
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                                                        IBM Research, Development and 
                  University of Lugano 
                                                      Tech sales
                  University of Texas at Arlington     
                                                         Microsoft Research
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                  CalTech - Pasadena                   
                                                         Oracle
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                  Technion - Haifa                     
                                                         IDS Scheer AG -Saarbrücken 
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                  FU Berlin                            
                                                         WestGlobal - Dublin 
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                  University of Waikato                  Cordys - Putten 
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                  Kyung Hee University                   RuleCore - Göteborg 
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                                                        CITT GmbH - Regensburg 
                  University of Toronto 
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                                                        Gartner (Roy Schulte)
                  Stanford University 
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                  Universität Göttingen 
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 Backgrounds/Interests of Participants
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      Active Databases
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      Rules-based Event Processing
       Rewerse project
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      Streaming and Databases
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      Distributed Pub/Sub systems
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      Sensor networks and wireless
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      Simulation and Verification
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      High-end computation applied to Physics 
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      Modelling
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      Business Activity Monitoring
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      Crisis Management
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      Ambient Intelligence (Smart Cities)
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      Unification/positioning of events, streams, databases
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 Topics suggested for discussion
      Three meta questions from Roy Schulte
            a) What areas should research focus on?
            b) What should industry do?
            c) Is this a Paradigm shift?
      Applications
            Characterise application space for EP -  scenarios, current and future
            Benchmarks, good benchmarks. design points
      EP Semantics
            Semantics of events, temporal uncertainty, programmatic semantics
            Streams and Event management
      EP Modelling
            Positioning of SOA, EDA and EAI
            Differing models for event processing, also models for events and modelling notation
            Relationship between Events and BI.. "Event pattern mining"
            Rule management, Evolution of rules. Visualization of rules
      Implementation
            Scalability
            Approaches to distributed event brokering, aspects, timing
            Event acquisition. Control of sensor networks, Identification of time-critical events
            Operational characteristics, "ilities", system guarantees, security
      Others
            Vertical Markets
            Standards
            Spam and false positives
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