Inferring event stream abstractions

@article{Kauffman2018InferringES,
  title={Inferring event stream abstractions},
  author={Sean Kauffman and Klaus Havelund and Rajeev Joshi and Sebastian Fischmeister},
  journal={Formal Methods in System Design},
  year={2018},
  volume={53},
  pages={54-82}
}
We propose a formalism for specifying event stream abstractions for use in spacecraft telemetry processing. Our work is motivated by the need to quickly process streams with millions of events generated e.g. by the Curiosity rover on Mars. The approach builds a hierarchy of event abstractions for telemetry visualization and querying to aid human comprehension. Such abstractions can also be used as input to other runtime verification tools. Our notation is inspired by Allen’s Temporal Logic, and… 
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