METHOD FOR PERFORMING DISTRIBUTED GEOGRAPHIC EVENT PROCESSING AND GEOGRAPHIC EVENT PROCESSING SYSTEM

摘要

A method for performing distributed geographic event processing includes defining a geographical state system including: a universe of locations, a family of initial states which assigns an initial state to each location in the universe of locations, a set of geographic input events, each geographic input event including one or more state transition functions that map, for one or more locations in a support of the respective geographic input event, a current state to a pair of a next state and an output event, and a global aggregation function for aggregating sets of output events. The method further includes geographically dividing the universe of locations into a plurality of subsets; and instructing each of a plurality of computational nodes to instantiate a local state system corresponding to a respective one of the subsets.