Object Management Group Technical Meeting to Hear Keynotes by US Department of Homeland Defense, Department of Health and Human Services.NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Information Days Highlight Emergency Management, e-Government, Healthcare Interoperability at Gathering November 1-5, 2004, in Washington, DC, USA Members of the Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) will meet in Washington, DC, USA from November 1 to 5, 2004 at a meeting sponsored by Objective Interface Systems (www.ois.com) to attend topical information days and tutorials, and advance the organization's standards work. On Monday, Lee Holcomb, CTO of the US Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States , will keynote Coalition Day, a day-long seminar on emergency management interoperability, and on Thursday, LeRoy E. Jones, Senior Technical Advisor to Dr. David J. Brailer, National Health Information Technical Coordinator at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Noun 1. Department of Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Health and Human Services, HHS , will keynote Healthcare Interoperability Information Day. Standards work during the week will extend the group's Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA (1) (Monochrome Display Adapter) The first IBM PC monochrome video display standard for text. Due to its lack of graphics, MDA cards were often replaced with Hercules cards, which provided both text and graphics. See PC display modes and Hercules Graphics. (R)), its middleware infrastructure, and its industry-specific domain specifications. Coalition Day Hosted by OMG's C4I Domain Task Force, Coalition Day brings together defense, intelligence, crisis response, and emergency management community leaders from the US and other countries for a day of presentations and panel discussion centered on IT interoperability problems and opportunities in both military and civilian crisis management. Lee Holcomb, CTO, US DHS will start the day with a morning keynote. E-Government Information Day Hosted by OMG's E-Government Domain Special Interest Group, this Information Day will address the needs of e-Government application developers, users, and content providers. The MDA, already providing benefit to the US General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) was established by section 101 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.A. § 751). The GSA sets policy for and manages government property and records. (GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. ), will be the topic of several morning presentations. Additional topics include security, Enterprise Application Integration, and Architecture-Driven Modernization. Information Assurance for High Risk Environments Information Day Hosted by OMG's Information and Security Assurance Platform Special Interest Group, this Information Day will explore requirements and synergy for information assurance among Military, Government, and Commercial Enterprises. Topics include the Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) Architecture, MILS in Enterprise Computing, security in the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS JTRS Joint Tactical Radio System JtRS Just The Right Shoe JTRS Just the Right Size JTRS Johnson Technical Reports Server JTRS Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship JTRS Jefferson Township Rescue Squad ), and security in banking and finance. Healthcare Information Day Hosted by OMG's Healthcare Domain Task Force and keynoted by LeRoy E. Jones, this day includes presentations on the use of the MDA in healthcare standards and cooperation between the Healthcare DTF and healthcare standards organization HL7, building on the liaison agreement between the two organizations announced in mid-September. The Healthcare DTF will rely on HL7's UML-based Reference Information Model and HL7 Development Framework for its new suite of service specifications. New Modeling Specifications OMG's Analysis and Design (AD) PTF PTF - Program Temporary Fix will review revised draft specifications for Queries, Views, and Transformations based on its modeling foundation, the MetaObject Facility (MOF). In the MDA, business models are transformed to computing models and then to running applications. This forthcoming specification will standardize these steps and increase the impact of MDA-based development. The AD PTF will also evaluate a UML Profile for Systems Engineering. Completed specifications for Versioning in MOF 2.0 and for a MOF 2.0-based Facility and Object Lifecycle definition will start the series of votes leading to formal adoption. New Infrastructure Specifications The Middleware and Related Services (MARS) PTF will complete its evaluations of two new specifications and start the series of votes leading to formal adoption: Streams for CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global (R) Components will enable new applications for OMG's component platform in the Telecommunications industry, while a UML Profile and Metamodel for Voice-based Applications will allow definition of voice-based dialogues independent of the target voice platform. The Real-Time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems (RTESS RTESS Real Time Embedded and Specialized System ) PTF expects to complete its evaluation of draft specifications for High-Performance Enablers, Reliable Ordered Multicast, Real-Time Notification, and Global Navigation Systems Client Services. New Business Rules Specifications OMG's Business Enterprise Integration (BEI) DTF will complete evaluations of a proposed metamodel for Business Semantics of Business Rules. OMG Tutorials, Software Demonstrations Four tutorials will survey and highlight OMG specifications and technology areas, including a "Survey of OMG Specifications," "Introduction to UML 2.0," "A tutorial and case study on Executable Enterprise Architecture for Government and Defense," and "OMG's Software Based Communications Specifications." On Monday, five MDA experts and consultants will share their insights on how to enable MDA in organizations at a seminar hosted by OMG's MDA FastStart program. Meeting sponsor Objective Interface Systems will speak at a plenary session on Wednesday. Open and freely available, OMG specifications have been implemented by many vendors, universities, and other groups. In Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday, implementors will display their products at a central demonstration area. UML Certification Examinations Attendees may take OMG's UML Certification examinations during the meeting week at a nearby testing site, and receive a 15% discount off the regular price. For more information, see www.omg.org/meetingumlcertinfo. This meeting description is based on preliminary information. OMG Task Forces will finalize their agendas for the meeting during the week of October 18th and post them at www.omg.org/agendas. Co-Located Meetings Two organizations will co-locate their meetings with OMG: The International Council on Systems Engineering The International Council on Systems Engineering or INCOSE (pronounced as in-co-see) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the advancement of systems engineering and to raise the professional stature of systems engineers. (INCOSE INCOSE International Council On Systems Engineering , www.incose.org) will hold its Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference from November 2 through 4, and the Business Process Management Notation (BPMN BPMN Business Process Modeling Notation , www.bpmn.org) working group of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI BPMI Business Process Management Initiative (HP, Nortel, Sun, Sybase, Etc.) BPMI British Profile Management Initiative , www.bpmi.org) will meet on November 3 and 4. Links to Meeting Information OMG's home page is www.omg.org. The meeting schedule and a link to registration for members appear at www.omg.org/registration, and for guests at www.omg.org/tcguest. Agendas appear at www.omg.org/agendas. Information about the MDA is collected at www.omg.org/mda. All OMG specifications may be downloaded free of charge from www.omg.org/specifications. 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 (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , 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 See UML. (language) Unified Modeling Language - (UML) A non-proprietary, third generation modelling language. The Unified Modeling Language is an open method used to specify, visualise, construct and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software-intensive system (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel For other uses of "CWM", see CWM (disambiguation). The Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) is a specification for modeling metadata for relational, non-relational, multi-dimensional, and most other objects found in a data warehousing environment. (CWM). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (standard, programming) Common Object Request Broker Architecture - (CORBA) An Object Management Group specification which provides a standard messaging interface between distributed objects. The original CORBA specification (1. , is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing representatives in Japan and Germany, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member companies write, adopt, and maintain the organization's standards following a mature, open process. All current OMG specifications may be downloaded without charge from the organization's website, www.omg.org; the site also provides additional information about OMG and its activities. For information on joining the OMG, or questions not addressed on the website, please contact OMG headquarters by email at info@omg.org, by phone at +1-781-444 0404, or by fax at +1-781-444 0320. Note to editors: The OMG Object Management Group Logo(R), MDA(R), Model Driven Architecture(R), UML(R), CORBA(R), CORBA Academy(R), The Information Brokerage(R), XMI (1) (XML Metadata Interchange) An XML-based representation of a UML model. XMI is used to transfer UML diagrams between various modeling tools. See UML. (2) An earlier high-speed bus from Digital that was used in large VAX machines. (R) and IIOP(R) are registered trademarks of the Object Management Group. OMG(TM), Object Management Group(TM), CORBA logos(TM), Model Driven Development(TM), MDD MDD Major depressive disorder, see there (TM), OMG Interface Definition Language See IDL. Interface Definition Language - (IDL) 1. An OSF standard for defining RPC stubs. 2. Part of an effort by Project DOE at SunSoft, Inc. to integrate distributed object technology into the Solaris operating system. (IDL (1) (Interface Definition Language) A language used to describe the interface to a routine or function. For example, objects in the CORBA distributed object environment are defined by an IDL, which describes the services performed by the object and how the data )(TM), The Architecture of Choice for a Changing World(TM), CORBAservices(TM), CORBAfacilities(TM), CORBAmed(TM), CORBAnet(TM), Integrate 2004(TM), Middleware That's Everywhere(TM), Unified Modeling Language(TM), The UML Cube logo(TM), MOF(TM), CWM(TM), The CWM Logo(TM), Model Driven Architecture Logos(TM) and the XMI Logo(TM) are trademarks of the Object Management Group. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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