Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies

Acknowledgments

This book was made possible by the cheerful support of Gartner Research management. Peter Sondergaard, Val Sriber, Jeff Schulman, and Anthony Bradley understood the value of event processing from the start. They believed in its importance to the industry enough to invest resources. Without their backing and personal encouragement, this project would not have happened.

The research that led to the writing of the book was also funded, in part, by the Lee Center at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Members of the Center listened to seminars, read papers, and gave constructive criticism over a decade. The research was also funded in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Multidisciplinary University Research ...