Call For Participation  

Abstract deadline:
Monday 1st February 2010

Software standards for real-time, embedded and enterprise-scale time-critical systems must support stringent resource, reliability, and timing requirements. The challenge is particularly acute for middleware standards, which must cope with performance and reliability variations of the underlying infrastructure. The Object Management Group (OMG) provides widely-used standards in this field, including the Data Distribution Service (DDS) for the predictable distribution of real-time data with minimal overhead, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) middleware supporting real-time scheduling and constrained resources, and the Unified Modelling Language (UML), along with its MARTE profile for Modelling and Analysis of Real-Time and Embedded systems. OMG SysML supports modelling complex systems incorporating software, hardware and manual elements, while the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) provides a visual representation of models of enterprise-scale systems.

The goal of the workshop is to identify the state of the art and disseminate current best practice in real-time and embedded distributed computing, for the benefit of standards users, researchers and implementers. The workshop Programme Committee is seeking proposals for presentations of experience reports, evaluations, case studies or research papers relevant to:

• Real-time systems
• Enterprise-scale Time-Critical Systems
• Embedded systems
• Systems Engineering
• Fault-tolerant systems
• High-Integrity & secure systems
• Mission- and Safety-critical systems
• Robotics
• Software-defined radio systems
• Design tools for real-time distributed systems
• Information Assurance for embedded systems
• Complex Event Processing and Event-Driven Architectures
• Pervasive & Mobile systems
• Modeling and services in real-time operating systems, including Real-time Linux,
  RT-Posix & ARINC 653.

Technologies relevant to this workshop include (but aren't limited to):

• Data Distribution Service (DDS)
• Real-time middleware, including real-time CORBA
• Real-time databases
• Real-time Java, High-integrity Real-time Java
• Real-time operating systems, including Real-time Linux, RT-Posix & ARINC 653
• Middleware for embedded and resource-constrained systems
• Middleware for Multi-Core Systems
• QoS-enabled Middleware
• Architecture Frameworks, such as MODAF & DoDAF and their UPDM profile
• Modelling notations, including SysML, UML and the UML profiles for MARTE
• Model-Driven approaches, including MDA
• Generating real-time code from models
• Design methods, including Agile methods
• Model analysis methods
• Model transformations
• Component platforms, including CCM and lightweight CCM
• Novel transport mechanisms
• High-level real-time programming models
• Service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) architecture

Panels

Proposals for panel sessions in any of the above areas are also welcomed.

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.

Instructions

Interested individuals or organisations are invited to submit a brief (up to 600 word) abstract of their proposed workshop presentation by Monday 1st February 2010 using this web form:

http://www.omg.org/abstracts 

The Programme Committee will select presentations for inclusion in the programme and notify authors on Tuesday 17th February 2010. Final presentation materials will be required from all selected presenters by Friday 14th May 2010.

The final workshop agenda and registration details will be available on Tuesday 2nd March 2010 and posted at: http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/realtime2010/index.htm

Programme Committee

Chair: Andrew Watson, Object Management Group

Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University
Angelo Corsaro, PrismTech
Bill Beckwith, Objective Interface Systems
Bran Selic, Malina Software
Charles Fudge, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Chris Raistrick, Kennedy-Carter
Christian Esposito, Universita degli studi di Napoli
Dave Stringer, Borland
Doug Jensen, MITRE
Doug Schmidt, PrismTech & Vanderbilt University
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Real-Time Innovations
James Kulp, Mercury Computer Systems
Johnny Willemsen, Remedy IT
Juan López Soler, University of Granada
Julio Medina, Universidad de Cantabria
Matthew Hause, Artisan
Nick Stavros, MITRE
Paul Vincent, TIBCO
Sébastien Gérard, CEA-LIST
Stephen Mellor
Ulrich Lang, Object Security
Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside
Victor Giddings, Objective Interface Systems
Virginie Watine, Thales

Exhibit space is available; for more information contact Mike Narducci at mike@omg.org or +1-781-444 0404. Sponsorship opportunities are available; contact Ken Berk at ken.berk@omg.org or +1-781-444 0404.

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OMG's modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG's middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries.

More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org. OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA.

Last updated on January 25, 2010 by Andrew