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Parallel Gesture Recognition with Soft Real-Time Guarantees

, , , and . Proceedings of the 2nd edition on Programming Systems, Languages and Applications based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control Abstractions, page 35--46. (October 2012)
DOI: 10.1145/2414639.2414646

Abstract

Applying imperative programming techniques to process event streams, like those generated by multi-touch devices and 3D cameras, has significant engineering drawbacks. Declarative approaches solve these problems but have not been able to scale on multicore systems while providing guaranteed response times.</p> <p>We propose PARTE, a parallel scalable complex event processing engine which allows a declarative definition of event patterns and provides soft real-time guarantees for their recognition. It extends the state-saving Rete algorithm and maps the event matching onto a graph of actor nodes. Using a tiered event matching model, PARTEprovides upper bounds on the detection latency. Based on the domain-specific constraints, PARTE's design relies on a combination of 1) lock-free data structures; 2) safe memory management techniques; and 3) message passing between Rete nodes. In our benchmarks, we measured scalability up to 8 cores, outperforming highly optimized sequential implementations.

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