The Event Web: A sense and respond mechanism

The Event Web is the name of a proposed implementation of a set of sense and response mechanisms. It's an architectural design based on flexible inputs and outputs, almost like SOA with a larger view.

In "The Event Web: Sense and Respond to Critical Conditions," authors K. Mani Chandy and Jonathan Lurié Carmona describe the event web with a number of biological analogies: a musculature, a pride of lions, and a herd of zebras (interacting with the lions as a further example of sense and response in the real world).

The implication of the Event Web is that an enterprise can detect events and generate appropriate responses, which can take the form of email events, or SMS messages, or new resources to be stored or processed. Further, the event web is meant to be built recursively, so an event web is itself composed of smaller event webs, down to a very granular level.

On a code level, composition and injection seem to borrow some of the ideas (and Hivemind's whole raison d'etre is based around similar concepts). What do you think of the idea at the enterprise level? I've used similar ideas myself, for Technews and some other similar projects, so I know it's viable...

Resources:

• The Event Web: Sense and Respond to Critical Conditions
• Service-Oriented Architecture: Event Web Building Block
• Event-Driven Architecture: Event Web Building Block