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<big>'''Project BiCEP'''</big> BiCEP is a new project started in the Systems and Software Engineering Group at the University of Coimbra. The goal of the project is to produce benchmarks for [http://www.complexevents.com:Complex Event Processing] systems (CEP). Read more after the ad. ---- <big>'''NEW PEOPLE'''</big> We have three new additions to the project: David Alves (PhD student), Rafael Marmelo (MSc student), and Diogo Guerra (MSc student). Welcome all! <big>'''NEW DOWNLOAD'''</big> You can now download [[Media:FINCoS.zip]], a framework to generate simple datasets, run experiments, and measure and compare CEP engines. FINCoS was presented first at [http://debs08.dis.uniroma1.it/ DEBS 2008 in Rome]. <big>'''KEEP IN TOUCH'''</big> Subscribe to news regarding the BiCEP project by sending an email to [mailto:majordomo@dei.uc.pt majordomo@dei.uc.pt] with the words "subscribe bicep-users". ---- Although we are still in the design stage (analysing use cases) we already identified some characteristics we believe a CEP benchmark should measure. Some are obvious, others not quite: * '''Sustainable throughput''': the steady-state number of events per unit of time that a (warmed-up) CEP engine can process while performing query processing. Even within the same system, sustainable throughput can vary widely depending on the amount of work to be done during query processing. * '''Response time''': the time since the last event of some event pattern is fed into the system until the system notifies the event pattern detection. * '''Scalability''': Unlike other benchmarks that considerer scalability only as a variation of the benchmark with more data and more users, in BiCEP we would like scalability to be a first-class metric. That is, while it is useful to compare systems at different scale levels, it is also very interesting to assess how well a given system scales. For example, CEP engines can use some of the new techniques (e.g., [http://aws.amazon.com/ec2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]) that allow a system to grab hardware resources on demand makes. We are planning scalability experiments along three directions: i) scale-up: increase the system and increase the load, ii) speed-up: increase the system and maintain the load, and iii) load-up: maintain system but increase the load. * '''Adaptivity''': Typically, systems are benchmarked after they are “warmed-up” and in a steady state. However, while it seems that there will be periods where CEP systems are in steady states, it also appears likely that, due to the very unpredictable nature of the real-world events being processed by CEP engines, there will be frequent disruptive moments, when the system should adapt its query processing to be more efficient. * '''Computation Sharing''': Many CEP applications process tens, hundreds, millions of similar queries concurrently. For example, a CEP engine in a financial trading company may be processing thousands of rules for each stock ticket: many customers may be monitoring the same stock but each customer may have slightly different buy or sell values. If the CEP engine can devise query processing techniques such that different queries are able to share computation, then the scalability potential of the system is greatly improved. * '''Similarity search and precision and recall''': As far as we know, no CEP engine uses any kind of similarity search: the patterns being searched are always precisely specified by a query language. Thus, we expect no false positives and no false negatives. However, if CEP users demand more and more complex patterns, we expect CEP engines to start using similarity search. If similarity search is used, then CEP engines may occasionally produce incorrect results by way of false positives and false negatives. We also expect false positives and false negatives if CEP engines use past events to forecast real-world future events. Read more about CEP from our [http://www.dagstuhl.de Dagshtul] project presentation [http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/1143/pdf/07191.BizarroPedro.ExtAbstract.1143.pdf paper]. The project started in September 2007 and is funded by an [http://cordis.europa.eu/mariecurie-actions/irg/home.html FP6 Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant].

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