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: ha1503238d22fdfac
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 0.00015566625
Overall Rank: 612 | 95.89%
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
241	High-Performance Complex Event Processing over Streams	2006	SIGMOD	0.00023408695
580	Efficient Pattern Matching over Event Streams	2008	SIGMOD	0.0001607809
653	The Design and Implementation of a Sequence Database System	1996	VLDB	0.00015099306
706	Sequence Query Processing	1994	SIGMOD	0.0001463663
755	Cayuga: A General Purpose Event Monitoring System	2007	CIDR	0.00014226048
1,349	Querying Shapes of Histories	1995	VLDB	0.0001094143
1,491	Event Specification in an Active Object-Oriented Database	1992	SIGMOD	0.00010503925
2,116	View Maintenance Issues for the Chronicle Data Model (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	9.0115434e-05
2,891	Improving Performance in Replicated Databases through Relaxed Coherency	1995	VLDB	7.9009319e-05
3,992	What is "Next" in Event Processing?	2007	PODS	6.8653232e-05
4,122	Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems	1995	SIGMOD	6.7915299e-05
4,879	Events on the Edge	2005	SIGMOD	6.3692634e-05
6,021	NAOS: Efficient and modular reactive capabilities in an Object-Oriented Database System	1994	VLDB	5.9101772e-05
7,444	Temporal Aggregation in Active Database Rules	1997	SIGMOD	5.5237433e-05
8,717	Online Windowed Subsequence Matching over Probabilistic Sequences	2012	SIGMOD	5.2880532e-05
8,933	Monitoring Business Processes with Queries	2007	VLDB	5.2534908e-05
12,704	Business Policy Modeling and Enforcement in Databases	2011	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,129	Inference and Prediction of Uncertain Events in Active Systems: A Language and Execution Model	2003	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,189	Push Technology Personalization Through Event Correlation	2000	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,253	The STRIP Rule System For Efficiently Maintaining Derived Data	1997	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-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
581	Alert: An Architecture for Transforming a Passive DBMS into an Active DBMS	1991	VLDB	0.00015977796
1,049	Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1)	1987	PODS	0.00012293092
1,491	Event Specification in an Active Object-Oriented Database	1992	SIGMOD	0.00010503925
2,136	A Transactional Model for Long-Running Activities	1991	VLDB	8.9870806e-05
2,345	Temporal Logic & Historical Databases	1991	VLDB	8.5995917e-05
2,546	A Model for Active Object Oriented Database	1991	VLDB	8.3138254e-05
3,638	Ode as an Active Database: Constraints and Triggers	1991	VLDB	7.1428559e-05

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