OMG Hosts Embedded and Real-Time Distributed Object Systems Workshop Call for Presentations.

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2001

The Object Management Group announces that it will host its annual workshop on Embedded and Real-Time Distributed Object Systems on January 7 through 10, 2002 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Burlingame, CA, USA.

The workshop, exclusively sponsored by IONA Technologies (www.iona.com) is intended to increase the awareness and adoption of embedded and real-time distributed object systems by providing a forum for exchanging implementation experiences, practical insights, novel ideas, and thoughts on new lines of research.

The workshop program committee is seeking contributions that may describe experiences with experimental or deployed systems, research, conceptual or theoretical work, but must in some way relate to either the use of, or the advancement of technical knowledge about, embedded and real-time distributed object systems. Abstract submissions must be received by 17 August 2001.

Example topics might include:

--Use of object oriented technologies in embedded devices and application development

--Design and implementation tools for embedded and real-time middleware-based distributed object applications

--Formal methods for embedded or real-time distributed object systems design

--Embedded middleware deployment experiences

--Security in embedded and real-time distributed object systems

--Real-time or Quality of Service (QoS) issues in embedded and real-time distributed object middleware

--Approaches to applying end-to-end QoS to communication technologies

--End-user experiences with embedded and real-time CORBA and other distributed object models

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

--Component-based approaches to embedded and real-time distributed object systems

--Testing and evaluation of embedded and real-time distributed middleware

--The future of embedded and real-time distributed object systems

--Embedded and real-time distributed object system architecture

--Application of Model-Driven Architecture to embedded and real-time distributed object systems

--Hardware support for distributed object middleware functions

Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief one-page abstract of their presentation or tutorial, in English, by 17th August 2001. For the complete Call for Presentations and submission deadlines, see http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/rtembedded2002/call.htm.

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design, through development, to deployment and maintenance, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration. Based on the established Object Management Architecture (OMA) and emerging Model Driven Architecture (MDA), OMG's standards cover application design and implementation. OMG's Modeling standards include the UML (Unified Modeling Language) and CWM (Common Warehouse Metamodel). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform. OMG also issues the CORBAservices and a rapidly-growing set of industry-specific standards in vertical markets including healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with an office in Tokyo, Japan as well as international marketing offices in the UK and Germany, along with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC. The OMG is a major sponsor of the Integrate 2001 trade show and conference to be held September 19-21, 2001 in New York City.

For information on joining the OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at [phone], by fax at [phone], or by email at [e-mail]. The OMG provides current information and services for distributed enterprise computing on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and www.corba.org. Information about OMG Japan can be found at www.omgj.org.

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