OMG Announces Program for Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems.

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- July 10-13, 2006; Washington, DC USA

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), today announced the program 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 full program and registration details may be found online at http://www.omg.org/rte-pr.

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.

Workshop Agenda Topics:

Tutorials

--Real-time Data Distribution Service by Victor Giddings, Senior Scientist, Objective Interface Systems and Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Chief Technology Officer, Real-Time Innovations, Inc.

--Real-time CORBA by Kevin Buesing, Director of Technology Services, Objective Interface Systems

--Using the Lightweight CORBA Component Model to Develop Distributed Real-time and Embedded Applications by Douglas C. Schmidt, Professor of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University and Frank Pilhofer, Software Engineer, Mercury Computer Systems 

Session Topics

--Fault Tolerance

--Performance and QoS Assurance

--Software Defined Radio Implementation Experiences

--Applications of Model Driven Development

--Exploiting the Potential of DDS: Application-Design Patterns and Model-Driven Development

--Real-time CORBA: The New Paradigm

--Components

--High Assurance/Security

--The Real-Time Specification for Java: ORB and Case Study

--Integrating Heterogeneous Middleware Technologies: Bridging Real-Time, Enterprise, and Domain-Specific Systems

Birds-of-a-Feather

--Enhancing the High Confidence Software Infrastructure for DRE Systems, moderated by Helen Gill, Program Director, National Science Foundation

--CORBA/e - Future Profiles, moderated by Andrew Foster, Product Manager, PrismTech Corporation

The early-bird registration discount is available until June 12, 2006. To register, visit http://www.omg.org/rte-pr.

The OMG invites anyone interested in distributed, real-time and embedded systems, and vendors to attend. Agenda, hotel and registration information is available at http://www.omg.org/rte-pr. Exhibit space is available; for more information contact Kevin Loughry at [e-mail], [phone]. Sponsorship opportunities are available; contact Ken Berk at [e-mail] or [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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