Facilitating Intelligent Sharing of Information for Decision Making over Distributed Heterogeneous Network-Centric Environments

摘要

This report provides a novel approach for supporting the creation of rules and events dynamically at run time, which is critical for several classes of monitoring applications. The proposed approach avoids recompilation and restarts which are not appropriate in many environments that require fine-tuning of rules on the fly. The dynamic programming environment (DPE) presented in this report provides a generic set of classes that are designed to handle the creation, management, and execution of rules. This set of generic classes is application-independent making the system a general-purpose tool. The user application provides necessary class and event information to the DPE. The DPE uses this information to create, modify and manage the rules. The DPE supports the creation of new composite and temporal events. The system also provides information about rules and events in XML format. A user-friendly interface is provided to perform these tasks.