Towards a Semantic Definition for a Cloud based Event Notification Service

Abstract

We propose an Activity Service as a component in cloud computing. As a particular novelty we base this Activity Service on the well-defined and proven semantics of Active Database Management Systems (ADBMS) to overcome the challenges of developing portable cloud based event processing applications. As contribution of this paper we provide the first steps of the adaption of the ADBMS semantics to the distributed and highly dynamic environment of the cloud.