SPECIFYING A FAMILY OF LOGICS DEFINING WINDOWS IN DATA STREAM MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Simplifying a user's task in specifying a family of logics, with each logic designed to potentially select different subsets of values from the same continuous data stream at the same time instant. In one embodiment, all the logics are together specified by a common user specified software code design to accept a set of parameters, with different logics resulting from execution of the software code with different parametric values. Thus, when closely related family of logics are to be developed, the common software code may be formulated, with the code being designed to accept parameters and providing different logics for different sets of parametric values corresponding to the parameters.