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Event Sink

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Event consumer

Definition

An entity that receive events from other entities [1].

Key Points

Event sink are nodes in the edge of the event processing network (receiving only) that receive events from the event processing network, event sinks are typically of two types:

  1. 1.

    Orchestration event Sink: receives an event from the event processing network and determines what action should be triggered (e.g., ECA rule) [2]. An action can be – database update, activating a software module, activating/modifying/terminating a workflow instance [3].

  2. 2.

    Notification event sink: receives the event from an event processing network and sends it to a consumer – a person or a dashboard [4].

Note: the action that is triggered by the event sink may be an event source and emit events to the same event processing network or to another event processing network, this will be reflected in the event causality and event lineage.

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  1. Luckham D, Schulte D. editors. EPTS event processing glossary version 1.1. http://complexevents.com/?p=409

  2. Lin Chen, Minglu Li, Jian Cao, Yi Wang. An ECA rule-based workflow design tool for Shanghai Grid. In: IEEE SCC; 2005. p. 325–28.

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  3. Lin D, Sheng H, Ishida T. Interorganizational workflow execution based on process agents and ECA rules. IEICE Trans. 2007;90(9):1335–42.

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  4. Ruby CL, Green ML, Miller R. The operations dashboard: a collaborative environment for monitoring virtual organization-specific compute element operational status. Parallel Process Lett. 2006;16(4):485–500.

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  1. IBM Software Group, IBM Haifa Labs, Haifa University Campus, 34761, Haifa, Israel

    Opher Etzion

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. IBM Software Group, IBM Haifa Labs, Haifa University Campus, 34761, Haifa, Israel, Israel

    Opher Etzion

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Etzion, O. (2016). Event Sink. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_586-2

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