ACID

Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability

BASE

Basically Available Soft-State

CAP

Consistency, Availability, Partitioning Tolerance

CEP

Complex Event Processing

DAG

Directed Acyclic Graph

DFA

Deterministic Finite Automaton

DHT

Distributed Hash Table

EMB

Event-Based Monitoring

ESP

Event-Stream Processing

GDS

Greedy-Dual Size

GOMS

Goals, Operators, Methods, Selection rules

LFU

Least Frequently Used

LRU

Least Recently Used

MFOTL

Metric First Order Temporal Logic

NVL

Name-Value List

PFSM

Probabilistic Finite State Machine

UF

Utility Function