Call for Participation: OMG's Third Annual Software-Based Communications Workshop: Realizing the Vision; March 5-8, 2007; Washington, D.C.

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), a software consortium responsible for establishing distributed computing specifications, today announced a call for participation for its Software-Based Communications (SBC) Workshop: Realizing the Vision. The workshop, co-sponsored by Boeing (www.boeing.com) and PrismTech (www.prismtechnologies.com) will take place March 5-8, 2007 in Washington, D.C., USA. The call for participation runs until September 15, 2006. All workshop and call details are available at http://www.omg.org/sbc07.

Partnering with industry, government and other standards bodies, the OMG continues its standardization efforts related to Software-Based Communication (SBC) technology with a focus on the development of a software architecture for software-defined radios (SDR). Building upon a military software-defined radio (SDR) foundation, Software-Based Communication technology has matured, with applicability growing to address a wide range of application areas including automotive, public safety, global tracking, consumer electronics and cellular network infrastructure. In this context, the workshop Program Committee is seeking proposals for presentations of experience reports, evaluations, case studies or research papers on topics relevant to (but not limited to):

--Applying MDA to Software-based Communications

--Software development

--Software Frameworks, Architectures, Platforms and Platform Specific Models

--Real-time component-based architectures

--Performance issues and processing platform choices

--High-capacity SBC development

--Security issues and implementation approaches

--SBC Standards

--Hardware considerations

--Communications

--Value add IP Networks

--Data Communication Networks

--Radio Base Stations

--High Capacity (Bandwidth & Frequency) Mobile Datalinks

--Waveforms (GSM, WCDMA)

--Tutorials on SBC overview and getting started with SBC

--Experience reports, case studies and best practices

--SBC snapshot including State of the Art, Future Directions / Research results

--Products and Advances in Tools

--Project Management

--Certification

In addition, proposals for panel sessions and roundtables in any of the above areas are also welcomed. Proposals are welcomed for half-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 and a 100-word or less biography by September 15, 2006 using this web form: http://www.omg.org/abstracts. Visit the website for full details.

The Program Committee will select presentations for inclusion in the program and notify authors by Tuesday, October 3, 2006. Final presentation materials will be required from all selected presenters by Friday, February 16, 2007. The final workshop agenda and registration details will be available by Thursday, October 5, 2006 and posted at http://www.omg.org/sbc07.

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