Call for Presentations: OMG's Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems; July 11-14, 2005, Washington, DC.

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) today announced a call for presentations for its workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems. The workshop will take place July 11-14, 2005 in Washington, DC, USA. The call for presentations runs until February 25, 2005. All workshop and call details are available at http://www.omg.org/rt-2005.

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. In this context, 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

--Software-defined radio systems

--Embedded secure systems

Technologies relevant to this workshop include (but are not limited to):

--Real-time middleware, including real-time CORBA(R)

--Real-time Java

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

--Middleware for embedded and resource-constrained systems

--Modeling notations (including Unified Modeling Language(R) (UML(R)))

--Model-Driven approaches, including MDA(R)

--Design methods (including Agile methods)

--Component platforms (including the CORBA Component Model)

--Novel transport mechanisms

--High-level real-time programming models

--Service-oriented architectures Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) architecture

In addition, proposals for panel sessions in any of the above areas are also welcomed. Proposals are welcomed 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 February 25, 2005 using this web form: http://www.omg.org/abstracts.

The Program Committee will select presentations for inclusion in the program and notify authors by Friday, March 11, 2005. Final presentation materials will be required from all selected presenters by Monday, June 13, 2005. The final workshop agenda and registration details will be available by Tuesday, March 15, 2005 and posted at http://www.omg.org/rt-2005

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