Call For Participation: Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems; July 10-13, 2006; Washington, DC USA.

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), today issued a Call for Participation for its Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems, to be held July 10-13, 2006 in Washington, DC, USA. The workshop is co-sponsored by PrismTech (www.prismtechnologies.com). The abstract submission deadline is Friday, March 31, 2006. For more information, please visit http://www.omg.org/abstracts.

Software standards for real-time and embedded systems must support stringent resource, reliability, and timing requirements. The challenge is particularly acute for middleware standards, which have to cope with performance and reliability variations of the underlying infrastructure. OMG provides a widely-used set of standards for this purpose, including the Data Distribution Service (DDS) middleware standard, for the predictable distribution of real-time data with minimal overhead, and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA(R)), with support for real-time scheduling, fault tolerance and resource-constrained systems. OMG's Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(R)) standard supports real-time analysis and design, and its Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R)) is used to create applications from models.

Following the success of past real-time and embedded workshops, OMG is hosting this workshop as a forum for standards users, researchers and implementers to share their experiences. Presentations and discussions at the workshop will also help shape future of OMG standards.

The workshop Program Committee is seeking proposals for presentations of experience reports, evaluations, case studies or research papers relevant to:

--Real-time systems

--Embedded systems

--Fault-tolerant systems

--High-availability systems

--Safety-critical systems

--Robotics

--Software-defined radio systems

--Design tools for real-time distributed systems

--Information Assurance for embedded systems

Technologies relevant to this workshop include (but aren't limited to):

--Real-time middleware, including real-time CORBA

--Data Distribution Service (DDS)

--Real-time databases

--Real-time Java

--Real-time operating systems, including Real-time Linux

--Middleware for embedded and resource-constrained systems

--Architecture Frameworks, including MODAF, DODAF and TOGAF 

--Modeling notations, including UML

--Model-Driven approaches, including MDA

--Design methods, including Agile methods

--Component platforms, including CCM 

--Novel transport mechanisms

--High-level real-time programming models

--Service-oriented architectures (SOA)

--Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) architecture

The Program Committee is also interested in receiving proposals for panel sessions any of the above areas as well as proposals for half-day or full-day tutorials on established techniques and standards in any of the areas touched on in this call. Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief (up to 600-word) abstract of their proposed workshop presentation by Friday, March 31, 2006 using this Web form: http://www.omg.org/abstracts.

The Program Committee will select presentations for inclusion in the program and notify authors on Thursday, April 13, 2006. Final presentation materials will be required from all selected presenters by Monday, June 19, 2006. The final workshop agenda and registration details will be available on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 and posted at: http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/realtime2006/index.htm.

Exhibit space is available; for more information contact Kevin Loughry at [e-mail], [phone]. Sponsorship opportunities are available; contact Ken Berk at [e-mail], [phone].

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA(R), include the Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(R)) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM(TM)). CORBA(R), the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org.

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