OMG Hosts Seventh Annual Workshop On Distributed Objects and Components Security; Call for Presentations.

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2002

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) announces the Call for Presentations for its seventh annual workshop on Distributed Objects and Components Security (DOCsec). The workshop, co-sponsored Promia, Inc. (www.promia.com) will be held April 7 through 10, 2003 in Baltimore Maryland, USA. This year, the program committee is soliciting case studies from enterprise and vendors who have confronted the following challenges; speculative or available techniques and tools for effectively constructing an operational system using (nearly) arbitrary security technologies and one or more middleware platforms and architectures; and research studies related to techniques and tools for solving these problems. Of special interest would be techniques or tools that use modeling technologies such as UML(TM), which would fit into the OMG's Model Driven Architecture initiative.

Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief abstract of the presentation/position they are proposing for the Workshop by November 4, 2002 to [e-mail].

Some of the specific topics on which the Workshop Program Committee is seeking proposals include:

- Existing and emerging DOC application middleware with specific emphasis on security

- DOC applications and secure online identity

- Case studies related to modeling and deploying flexible DOC security solutions

- Existing and emerging security technologies and specifications that have been (are being) developed as to provide or integrate security into one or more middleware architectures

- User case studies describing problems encountered and lessons learned as DOC middleware was integrated with security technologies to produce operational systems.

- Realization of Security Architectures

- Security Validation

- Effective Management of DOC security systems

For the complete list of topics and instructions on how to submit an abstract(s), please see http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/docsec2003/call.htm.

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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.

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