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A Unified Model of Internet Scale Alerting Services

Abstract
In the last years, alerting systems have gained strengthened attention. Several systems have been implemented. For the evaluation and cooperation of these systems, the following problems arise: The systems and their models are not compatible, and existing models are only appropriate for a subset of conceivable application domains. Due to modeling differences, a simple integration of different alerting systems is impossible. What is needed, is a unified model that covers the whole variety of alerting service applications. This paper provides a unified model for alerting services that captures the special constraints of most application areas. The model can serve as a basis for an evaluation of alerting service implementations. In addition to the unified model, we define a general profile structure by which clients can specify their interest. This structure is independent of underlying profile definition languages. To eliminate drawbacks of the existing non-cooperating solitary services we introduce a new technique, the Mediating Alerting Service (MediAS). It establishes the cooperation of alerting services in an hierarchical and parallel way.
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Hinze, A. & Faensen, D. (1999). A Unified Model of Internet Scale Alerting Services. In Proceedings of 5th International Computer Science Conference, ICSC’99, Hong Kong, China, December 13-15, 1999(pp. 610-620). Berlin: Springer.
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1999
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Spring, Berlin
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