TY - JOUR TI - Detecting and Coordinating Complex Patterns of Distributed Events with KETAL PY - 2011 issn 1571-0661 AB - This paper presents an event-based kernel library designed to explicitly construct and coordinate complex interactions and communication patterns in distributed applications. The library integrates facilities for explicitly defining complex event patterns, detecting events in distributed systems, and validating sequences of events having into account causal ordering. Concretely we present the following contributions: i) An analysis of non trivial scenarios found in distributed applications in order to formulate a set of requirements and restrictions for a kernel event-based library, ii) the design and implementation of the library supporting the detection and coordination of complex event patterns and the support of causal manipulation of distributed events, iii) a qualitative evaluation of our approach showing how this library can be used to build a sophisticated distributed aspect oriented language. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. KW - Modelos de computación KW - Patrones de diseño de software KW - Middleware KW - Aplicaciones de los computadores KW - Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones KW - Systems engineering UR - http://repository.icesi.edu.co/biblioteca_digital/handle/10906/82840 ER -