Abstract:
Event-driven systems are used in a wide range of applications such
as responding to missile attacks, interdicting potential terrorists,
exploiting arbitrage opportunities and responding to congestion in
supply chains. The designs of event-driven systems vary widely
because the costs and benefits to users of different applications
are markedly different. This talk proposes a framework for unifying
designs of different types of applications by representing the
design problem as a constrained optimization and by defining
interaction between components in distributed event-based systems in
terms of a concept called ``shared models.'' This talk is intended
to suggest that there are concepts that unify analyses of a range of
event-driven systems in nature, human social organizations and
information technology systems.
Michel Charpentier <>
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