Composite Event Specification in Active Databases: Model & Implementation

Summary: Introduces an expressive language for composite active-database events, including pipes and correlation variables for coordinating subhistories and matching attributes. Compiles event expressions into finite automata that recognize trigger conditions efficiently over event histories. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8272
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 0.00015921967
Overall Rank: 597 | 95.91%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. N. H. Gehani (AT&T)
2. H. V. Jagadish (AT&T)
3. O. Shmueli (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{gehani_vldb92,
        title = {{Composite Event Specification in Active Databases: Model \& Implementation}},
        author = {Gehani, N. H. and Jagadish, H. V. and Shmueli, O.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '92},
        volume = {18},
        pages = {327--338},
        year = {1992}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
229	High-Performance Complex Event Processing over Streams	2006	SIGMOD	0.00023927582
565	Efficient Pattern Matching over Event Streams	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016445548
639	The Design and Implementation of a Sequence Database System	1996	VLDB	0.00015434427
687	Sequence Query Processing	1994	SIGMOD	0.00014948592
732	Cayuga: A General Purpose Event Monitoring System	2007	CIDR	0.00014536846
1,318	Querying Shapes of Histories	1995	VLDB	0.00011178588
1,451	Event Specification in an Active Object-Oriented Database	1992	SIGMOD	0.00010745897
2,080	View Maintenance Issues for the Chronicle Data Model (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	9.2052704e-05
2,837	Improving Performance in Replicated Databases through Relaxed Coherency	1995	VLDB	8.0690106e-05
3,909	What is "Next" in Event Processing?	2007	PODS	7.025812e-05
4,040	Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems	1995	SIGMOD	6.9423365e-05
4,767	Events on the Edge	2005	SIGMOD	6.5180182e-05
5,896	NAOS: Efficient and modular reactive capabilities in an Object-Oriented Database System	1994	VLDB	6.0486927e-05
7,295	Temporal Aggregation in Active Database Rules	1997	SIGMOD	5.6532019e-05
8,542	Online Windowed Subsequence Matching over Probabilistic Sequences	2012	SIGMOD	5.4119882e-05
8,763	Monitoring Business Processes with Queries	2007	VLDB	5.3766157e-05
12,407	Business Policy Modeling and Enforcement in Databases	2011	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,833	Inference and Prediction of Uncertain Events in Active Systems: A Language and Execution Model	2003	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,893	Push Technology Personalization Through Event Correlation	2000	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,957	The STRIP Rule System For Efficiently Maintaining Derived Data	1997	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
576	Alert: An Architecture for Transforming a Passive DBMS into an Active DBMS	1991	VLDB	0.00016238156
1,026	Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1)	1987	PODS	0.00012578477
1,451	Event Specification in an Active Object-Oriented Database	1992	SIGMOD	0.00010745897
2,089	A Transactional Model for Long-Running Activities	1991	VLDB	9.1910671e-05
2,304	Temporal Logic & Historical Databases	1991	VLDB	8.7769303e-05
2,492	A Model for Active Object Oriented Database	1991	VLDB	8.5073897e-05
3,561	Ode as an Active Database: Constraints and Triggers	1991	VLDB	7.3091114e-05

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