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| Title: | An Efficient Computation of
Convex Closure on Abstract Events |
| Authors: | Bedasse, Dwight Samuel |
| Keywords: | Electrical & Computer Engineering
Event-detection
distributed systems |
| Approved Date: | 2005 |
| Date Submitted: | 2005 |
| Abstract: | The behaviour of distributed applications can be modeled as the occurrence of events and how these events relate to each other. Event data collected according to this event model can be visualized using process-time diagrams that are constructed from a collection of traces and events. One of the main characteristics of a distributed system is the large number of events that are involved, especially in practical situations. This large number of events, and hence large process-time diagrams, make distributed-system observation difficult for the user. However, event-predicate detection, a search mechanism able to detect and locate arbitrary predicates within a process-time diagram or event collection, can help the user to make sense of this large amount of data. Ping Xie used the convex-abstract event concept, developed by Thomas Kunz, to search for hierarchical event predicates. However, his algorithm for computing convex closure to construct compound events, and especially hierarchical compound events (i. e. , compound events that contain other compound events), is inefficient. In one case it took, on average, close to four hours to search the collection of event data for a specific hierarchical event predicate. In another case, it took nearly one hour. This dissertation discusses an efficient algorithm, an extension of Ping Xie?s algorithm, that employs a caching scheme to build compound and hierarchical compound events based on matched sub-patterns. In both cases cited above, the new execution times were reduced by over 94%. They now take, on average, less than four minutes. |
| Department: | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Degree: | Master of Applied Science |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/807 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Engineering Theses and Dissertations
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