Complex Event Processing (CEP) gained more and more attention in research and practical usage during the last years. Several engines and languages have been created and adapted in order to handle complex events. To describe the aggregation of simple events to more complex ones, these engines use technical and formal languages which are difficult to handle for business experts. Hence, business experts are often not properly involved into the formulation of complex events. This lack in the area of requirement engineering worsens the result of many CEP projects.
In his presentation on the 14th BTW conference on "Database Systems for Business, Technology, and Web" (BTW 2011) of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany Dr. Christian Seel from Software AG proposed a conceptual modeling language that allows business experts to formulate complex events according to business needs. The proposed modeling language is demonstrated in a quality management scenario in the automotive manufacturing industry and is defined with OMG’s MOF standard.
