OCEP: An Ontology-Based Complex Event Processing Framework for Healthcare Decision Support in Big Data Analytics

The exponential expansion of real-time data streams across multiple domains needs the development of effective event detection, correlation, and decision-making systems. However, classic Complex Event Processing (CEP) systems struggle with semantic heterogeneity, data interoperability, and knowledge driven event reasoning in Big Data environments. To solve these challenges, this research work presents an Ontology based Complex Event Processing (OCEP) framework, which utilizes semantic reasoning and Big Data Analytics to improve event driven decision support. The proposed OCEP architecture utilizes ontologies to support reasoning to event streams. It ensures compatibility with different data sources and lets you find the events based on the context. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) organizes event data, and SPARQL query enables rapid event reasoning and retrieval. The approach is implemented within the Hadoop environment, which consists of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for scalable storage and Apache Kafka for real-time CEP based event execution. We perform a real-time healthcare analysis and case study to validate the model, utilizing IoT sensor data for illness monitoring and emergency responses. This OCEP framework successfully integrates several event streams, leading to improved early disease detection and aiding doctors in decision-making. The result shows that OCEP predicts event detection with an accuracy of 85%. This research work utilizes an OCEP to solve the problems with semantic interoperability and correlation of complex events in Big Data analytics. The proposed architecture presents an intelligent, scalable and knowledge driven event processing framework for healthcare based decision support.