OMG Call For Presentations: Annual Real-time and Embedded Systems Workshop; July 12 - 15, 2004, Washington, DC.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2004

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) announces a Call for Presentations for its annual workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems. This four-day event will be held in Washington, DC, USA, on July 12-15, 2004. Proposals for workshop presentations or panels are due by Friday, March 19, 2004. The complete Call for Presentations and workshop details are available at: http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/realtime2004/index.htm. The following is a short list of suggested topics (see workshop website for an expanded list).

Case studies of deployed Real-time and Embedded CORBA(R)-based systems such as (but not limited to):

-- High-confidence, high-availability or mission-critical CORBA

applications

-- Real-Time, Fault Tolerant or Minimum CORBA interoperability

and performance

-- Security considerations in real-time or embedded CORBA

deployments

Design and modeling of Real-time, embedded and mission-critical systems

-- UML (TM) and MDA(R) to real-time, embedded and

high-availability systems

-- Agile methods (including Agile Modeling)

Real-Time & Embedded Specifications and Standards

Experience reports from developers implementing real-time and embedded specifications and standards, including:

-- Real-Time CORBA, Fault-tolerant CORBA and CORBA Services

-- Software Communications Architecture (SCA) and other

software-defined radio standards

Real-Time & Embedded Product Issues

Reports from users of real-time and embedded products and tools, including:

-- Real-Time or Quality of Service (QoS) issues in embedded

middleware

-- Profiling, profiles, and services

-- Qualitative and/or quantitative evaluations of real-time, high

confidence and embedded middleware

Real-Time and Embedded Advanced R&D Topics Research reports on relevant topics, such as:

-- Advanced scheduling techniques and high-level real-time

programming models

-- Power-aware and reflective ORB middleware for wide-area mobile

systems

-- Integrating Real-Time Java, Real-Time CORBA and Real-Time

Linux

-- Fault-tolerance issues in real-time and embedded systems

-- Model-Driven Architecture and other model-based development

approaches

Tutorials

-- 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 via email to [e-mail] by Friday, March 19, 2004.

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 standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages, middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development environments. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today.

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