David Luckham has developed a great site on Complex Event Processing. As companies get more serious about monitoring and improving complex business processes they will have to get much more serious about handling, processing and responding to complex sets of events. I believe this growth will lead to more use of both business rules engines and pattern-matching analytics such as neural networks and clustering techniques. Integrating these capabilities into an Enterprise Decision Management infrastructure would allow an enterprise to act effectively in response to the complex events with which it must deal.
