Abstract
Event detection applications have gained significant attention with the rise of user-generated spatio-temporal data over the past decade. However, building event detection applications still encounter high cost and effort due to lack of support in existing data management systems. This paper envisions a holistic system approach to support an efficient and easy-to-use system infrastructure for building event detection applications. We outline our vision for representing event detection applications as a set of layered abstractions and discuss potential pathways to realize these abstractions at the system level.