by Kelvin K. Droegemeier, et al.
Each year across the US, mesoscale weather events—flash floods, tornadoes, hail,
strong winds, lightning, and localized winter storms—cause hundreds of deaths, routinely disrupt transportation and commerce, and lead to economic losses
averaging more than US$13 billion. Although mitigating the impacts of such events
would yield enormous economic and societal benefits, research leading to [...]

Mapping Clouds of SOA- and Business-related Events for an Enterprise Cockpit in a Java-based Environment by Daniel Jobst and Gerald Preissler,
ABSTRACT This paper is about business process management (BPM) and business activity monitoring (BAM) using event processing. We will show why the management of business processes is important for all further steps towards an event-driven [...]

by Roger S. Barga, Jonathan Goldstein, Mohamed Ali and Mingsheng Hong.
In this paper, we present an overview and discuss the foundations of CEDR, an event streaming system that embraces a temporal stream model to unify and further enrich query language features that handle imperfections [...]

2006 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Eugene Wu, UC Berkeley
Yanlei Diao, UMass Amherst
Shariq Rizvi, Google Inc.
In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system that executes complex event queries over real-time streams of RFID readings encoded as events. These complex event queries filter and correlate events to match specific [...]

Today’s business applications rarely live in isolation. They need to be connected in order to create an integrated solution from which an organization can derive value. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) are two different paradigms that address complex integration challenges. How can organizations choose the better approach to meet their needs? Actually they [...]

Mani Chandy’s primary goal is to help dispel the misconception that EDA is of interest to you, the participants in this conference, as a technology of exclusively research interest that may become useful only after 2008. Many of you are already using EDA. Most of you can benefit from EDA applications now. So, a focus [...]

Applications that process real-time streams of data are pushing the limits of traditional data-processing infrastructures. This calls for a new class of systems software—a stream processing engine—whose attributes can be characterized by a core set of eight general rules.
Download the complete research paper “The Eight Rules of Real-Time Stream Processing” by Mike Stonebraker, Ugur Cetintemel, [...]

The research underlying the StreamBase ESP products was undertaken by a joint research collaboration between Brown and Brandeis Unviersities and MIT. Here are links to two .pdf papers from that project:
Monitoring Streams – A New Class of Data Management Applications
Abstract:
This paper introduces monitoring applications, which we will show differ substantially from conventional business data processing. [...]

This paper presents the �situation manager� rule language. The situation manager is a tool that includes both a language and an efficient run-time execution mechanism, aimed at reducing the complexity of active applications. It follows the observation that in many cases, there is a gap between current tools that enable to react to a single event (following the ECA: Event-Condition-Action paradigm), and the reality, in which a single event may not require any reaction, but the reaction should be given to patterns over the event history.

Abstract: Events are at the core of reactive applications, which have become popular in many domains.