OMG Launches New 'Deploying Service-Oriented Architectures' Workshop; Announces Call for Proposals.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2003

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) announces a call for proposals for the its new workshop on Deploying Service Oriented Architectures taking place February 23-26, 2004 in San Jose, CA, USA. The Workshop Program Committee is currently seeking proposals (due by December 12, 2003) for presentations, panels or tutorials addressing, but not limited to, any of the following topics (see http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/dsoa2004/call.htm for a complete list of topics):

Architectures

-- Challenges going from individual systems to architectures for

federations of systems

-- Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R))

-- Relationships between MDA, Web Services, Service Oriented

Architectures

Standards

-- State of the art and limitations in existing standards and

emerging standards

-- MDA in the present and future of Web Services

-- SOAs and GRID computing

-- The Semantic Web

Technologies

-- Interoperability among different technologies

-- Comparison and contrast between Application Servers, classical

ORBs (Object Request Brokers) and XML Request Brokers

Tools

-- Product and tool evaluation reports

-- Research and advanced development reports

Case Studies

Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief abstract of the presentation or position paper they are proposing for a Workshop session, tutorial or panel, along with proposed duration and a brief personal biography via email to [e-mail]. Abstracts should be no longer than 1 page in length and must only use HTML, PDF or ASCII text formats. Only 3 abstracts per individual will be accepted. Biographies should be no longer than 50 words. Please do not send presentations to this email address; abstracts only. Abstracts are due by December 12, 2003. Submitters will be notified by December 18, 2003.

Send email to [e-mail] for additional information about the workshop program or visit http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/dsoa2004/call.htm.

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