Filippo Castiglione, Vanessa Diaz, Andrea Gaggioli, Pietro Liò; Claudia Mazzà, Emanuela Merelli; Carel G.M Meskers; Francesco Pappalardo

In daily life, humans are constantly interacting with their environment. Evidence is emerging that this interaction is a very important modulator of health and well-being, even more so in our rapidly ageing society. Information and communication technology lies at the heart of the human health care revolution. It cannot remain acceptable to use out of date data analysis and predictive algorithms when superior alternatives exist. Communication network speed, high penetration of home broadband, availability of various mobile network options, together with the available detailed biological data for individuals, are producing promising advances in computerized systems that will turn information on human-environment interactions into actual knowledge with the potential to help make medical and lifestyle decisions. We introduced and discussed a key scenario in which hardware and software technologies capable of simultaneously sensing physiological and environmental signals process health care data in real-time to issue alarms, warnings, or simple recommendations to the patient or carers

Opher Etzion, Mani Chandy

From 06.05. to 11.05.2007, the Dagstuhl Seminar 07191 Event Processing was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The rst section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available.

Thomas Ertlmaier , Opher Etzion , Alexander Kofman , Thomas Paulus

Business processes must become agile, respond to changes in the business environment in a timely manner and quickly adapt themselves to new conditions. Event-Driven Business Process Management (ED-BPM) is an enhancement of Business Process Management (BPM) by concepts of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Complex Event Processing (CEP). The most important enhancement is the integration of services accessible via the Internet that fire events into global event clouds. The events can be processed by event processing platforms for aggregating the information into higher value complex business events. These events can be modeled in a business process execution language within a process driven Business Process Management System (BPMS) to trigger changes in control flow of a process or start other services. A reference model and a reference architecture for ED-BPM are presented, based on the NEXOF Reference Architecture. A taxonomy for classifying changes to process flow is proposed. Enhancements have to be applied to the existing standards in the BPM field, including both the design-time and the runtime. A scenario from the banking domain illustrates the main concepts and principles.

Torsten Greiner, Willy Düster, Francis Pouatcha, Hans-Martin Brandl, David Guschakowski

The kernel business process of easyCredit of the norisbank as a German Online Credit System is described with all its detailed process steps. Business Activity Monitoring is a basic condition for the successful operation of the system. The As Is-solution is faced with the future concept based on CEP/ESP. For that reason the process has to be redesigned in the sense of SOA and flexibly implemented by means of a BPEL-based Workflow Engine. In this connection the events of a BPEL-engine are differentiated from the events, which are being processed in a so called “event cloud” by a CEP system for a real time BAM. The possibilities and advantages of a real time able BAM are being shown taking the example of the easyCredit.