Programming Environment For "Event Correlation"?

sireenmalik asks: "Of late I have become interested in this field of research namely Event Correlation on a Distributed Network System. The more I read about it, the more ignorant I feel. There is so much to it: distributed network systems, databasing, artifical intelligence (neural networks, baysian belief networks, rule based,etc.), software engineering, computer science, telecommmunication....etc. If I were to really attack it from a programming point of view, can somebody tell me what tools and languages should I use? I suppose it will be a realtime environment. Academicians support ADA but I can't figure how the artificial intelligence part will be done. If I use PROLOG/LISP I get into HEAP management business which really is a dragon for realtime systems. C/C++ .. Java....? To add the list I also know about the diverse implementations using JIRO (from SUN), ECDL (from HP), RAPIDE (from Stanford.edu), JAVA Management API, ELAVA, GEM Language, MODEL Language, IF/PROLOG......and the list goes on and on and on! It's interesting as well as confusing (I can't help but agree here). Let's talk about it. Maybe something useful happens here?"