BioWare - Complex Event Processing

BioWare has licensed "complex event processing" software from Streambase Systems that - if I read this correctly - is a company that US intelligence agencies such as the CIA have invested in.

At any rate, the topic has produced a couple quotes from BioWare's Bill Dalton that are of interest:

"With a multi-player online game, you don't know whether you're going to have 1,000 people playing or 50,000," says Bill Dalton, technical director of BioWare. His firm needed a system that could analyze events on a massive scale as they occur in an online game environment and select the right adjustments for the environment. [...]

BioWare has not announced the name or described the nature of its online game, but Dalton said it will be launched in 2009. Dalton said his firm wants to do more than match the state of the art represented by such online games as World of Warcraft. He expects the complex event processing built into his firm's game to allow richer role playing and interactions between players.