[Cesg-all] Overview, OMG Technical Meeting in Athens

[Adrian J. Hooke]

>Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:50:52 -0500
>From: Dana Morris <dana at omg.org>
>Subject: What's Happening at the Upcoming OMG Technical Meeting: Athens, 
>Greece
>To: adrian.hooke at jpl.nasa.gov
>Organization: Object Management Group
>
>What’s Happening at the Upcoming OMG Technical Meeting
>April 11-15, 2005
>Athens, Greece at the Athens Ledra Marriott Hotel
>www.omg.org/athens/8
>
>Written February 10, 8 weeks pre-meeting, based on preliminary information 
>from deadlines and wrap-ups presented in Burlingame two weeks ago. Check 
>the OMG website for confirmation and details as the meeting date 
>approaches, especially the agenda page http://www.omg.org/agendas.
>
>Hotel Reservation Deadline for Athens Comes Early
>
>The deadline for hotel reservations in the OMG room block is Monday, 
>February 21, 2005. Reservations after this date will be subject to 
>availability. Because there are other events in Athens during our meeting 
>week, which may fill up the hotel, OMG strongly recommends that attendees 
>reserve their rooms on or before February 21.
>www.omg.org/athens/reg
>
>OMG Technical Meeting Week Overview
>
>OMG members will meet the week of April 11-15 at the Athens Ledra Marriott 
>Hotel in Athens, Greece. During the week, members will advance technology 
>through the group’s adoption process, attend special events and tutorials, 
>view demonstrations of OMG-compliant products, and attend co-located 
>meetings. If you work for an OMG member company, you can register for the 
>meeting at www.omg.org/registration. (Check www.omg.org/memberlist for our 
>list of member companies.) If your company is not a member, you can 
>request guest registration at www.omg.org/tcguest. If you plan to attend 
>only the Space or Enterprise Interoperability Information Days, or only 
>tutorials, check the appropriate box on the web form to receive the 
>reduced special event rate. There is no charge to attend the MDA FastStart 
>Seminar.
>
>MEETING WEEK HIGHLIGHTS:
>Special Events and Noteworthy Presentations:
>•       Space Information Day with CCSDS and OMG Space DTF, Monday afternoon.
>•       Enterprise Interoperability Information Day, Wednesday all day.
>•       MDA FastStart Seminar, Monday afternoon.
>OMG Tutorial Series:
>•       “Introduction to UML 2.0” by Bran Selic, IBM/Rational.
>•       “MDA--Where it Came From and Where It's Going” by Dave Frankel, 
>Dave Frankel Consulting.
>•       “Survey of OMG Specifications” by Dr. Jon Siegel, OMG.
>•       “Introduction to OMG’s Real-time Specifications”, by members of 
>the RTESS PTF.
>•       “Introduction to OMG’s Architecture-Driven Modernization 
>Specifications and Architecture” by members of the ADM PTF.
>UML Certification Examinations:
>•       OMG UML Certification Examinations available Mon-Fri, 10:00 AM to 
>1:15 PM.
>OMG Specifications Work:
>•       Platform-Side Technology Adoption Work
>•       Domain-Side Technology Adoption Work
>Co-Located Meetings:
>•       Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS)
>•       Crisis Response Executive Advisory TEam (CREATE)
>
>DETAILS:
>
>SPECIAL EVENTS:
>
>Space Information Day, Monday Afternoon: In Athens, OMG’s Space Domain 
>Task Force (DTF) will hold its first meeting co-located with Space 
>specifications consortium CCSDS. On Monday afternoon, the two 
>organizations will hold a combined plenary with presentations by each side 
>on their scope, skills, specifications portfolio, and current work. This 
>will set the stage for productive cooperative work.
>
>Enterprise Interoperability Information Day, Wednesday, all day, : The 
>Business Enterprise Integration will host an information day on Enterprise 
>Integration architecture and specifications.
>
>MDA FastStart Seminar: OMG’s MDA FastStart program will host an 
>informational seminar on Monday Afternoon.
>
>OMG TUTORIAL SERIES:
>
>"Introduction to UML 2.0" by Bran Selic, IBM Rational
>The first major revision of the UML standard, UML 2.0, has been completed 
>and is now available in its official version from OMG’s website. This 
>tutorial gives an overview of the most important features of UML 2.0 and 
>the rationale behind them. Special emphasis is given to the new concepts 
>that enable MDA, particularly for large-scale systems.
>
>“MDA--Where it Came From and Where It's Going” by Dave Frankel, Dave 
>Frankel Consulting
>An overview of MDA, focusing on the business and technical forces that 
>brought MDA into being and that will shape its evolution in the future.
>
>“Survey of OMG Specifications” by Dr. Jon Siegel, OMG
>Dr. Jon Siegel, OMG’s Vice President, Technology Transfer, will present a 
>tutorial “Survey of OMG Specifications.” Designed to familiarize attendees 
>with the group’s standards in both modeling and middleware, this tutorial 
>prepares both for activity at the meeting week and for technical work back 
>at the office. Starting with the basics of the MetaObject Facility (MOF), 
>Unified Modeling Language (UML), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), and the 
>Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM), the tutorial goes on to cover the Model 
>Driven Architecture (MDA). Then, switching to middleware, it covers the 
>basics of CORBA and the Object Management Architecture, and finishes with 
>a survey of OMG’s industry-specific domain specifications.
>
>“Introduction to OMG’s Real-time Specifications”, by members of the RTESS PTF.
>Members and chairs of the Real-Time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems PTF 
>will present a half-day tutorial surveying their specifications for these 
>systems, their architecture, and future plans.
>
>“Introduction to OMG’s Architecture-Driven Modernization Specifications 
>and Architecture” by members of the ADM PTF.
>Members and chairs of the Architecture-Driven Modernization PTF will 
>present a new half-day tutorial on their work. It is expected to cover the 
>fundamentals of ADM, the Knowledge Discovery Metamodel specification 
>effort, the Abstract Syntax Tree Metamodel RFP, the ADM Roadmap, and ADM 
>Scenarios.
>
>UML CERTIFICATION EXAMINATIONS
>
>OMG’s UML Certification Examinations will be given Monday through Friday 
>from 10:00 AM to 1:15 PM at a testing site close to the TC meetings. Save 
>€20 (about US$25) by using the discount code OMGPRO when you take the test 
>in Athens during the week of April 11-15. Appointments are required. For 
>information, see http://www.omg.org/meetingUMLcertinfo.
>
>WORK ON OMG SPECIFICATIONS
>
>Building on weeks of work via email and teleconference, OMG members get 
>together at five technical meetings per year to discuss and vote on new 
>specifications as they progress through our group’s adoption process. With 
>almost 100 adoptions underway at different stages, there is always a lot 
>happening. Members’ (and especially non-submitting members’) best chance 
>to influence a new specification is in the writing of the RFP, and next by 
>commenting at the presentation of initial submissions a few meetings 
>later. At the next stage, presentation of revised submissions, members on 
>the voting list for a specification will decide if a submission is ready 
>for adoption. If it is, they will vote to recommend; if not, they may 
>extend the revised submission deadline and wait for a more suitable 
>proposal. Eventually, when all of the issues have been worked out, the 
>Task Force will vote to recommend adoption, starting a procession of votes 
>which culminates in the formal adoption of the new OMG specification.
>
>So, if you work for an OMG member company or organization, the technical 
>meetings provide your best opportunity to influence our standards as they 
>work their way from concept to final form. If you’re interested in one or 
>more of these specifications scheduled for discussion at our Athens 
>meeting, we hope you’ll register and attend.
>
>Here’s a list of the work we know about that OMG Task Forces have 
>scheduled for the Athens meeting. Since this early writeup is based on 
>preliminary information, task force plans may change between now and the 
>meeting so, if you’re interested in one work item in particular, you 
>should check for it when Task Force agendas are posted on the OMG website 
>at www.omg.org/agendas two weeks before the meeting, or ask the chair over 
>the Task Force email list. (If your company is an OMG member and you’re 
>not on the email list, send a request to request at omg.org and we’ll add you.)
>
>PLATFORM SIDE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION WORK
>
>Analysis and Design (AD) PTF
>The AD PTF will review revised submissions to the MOF 2.0 QVT RFP, the MOF 
>2.0 Versioning and Development Lifecycle RFP, and the MOF 2.0 Facility and 
>Object Lifecycle RFP. They will also review the MOF 2.0 roadmap, and view 
>a presentation on TOGAF ADM and MDA synergies through OMG/Open Group 
>collaboration.
>
>Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM) PTF
>The ADM PTF will review revised responses to their RFP 1, Knowledge 
>Discovery Metamodel.
>
>Middleware and Related Services (MARS) PTF
>The MARS PTF will work on a number of RFPs and RFCs. They plan to complete 
>and vote to issue the UML 2.0 Profile for CCM RFP, and discuss drafts of 
>the Robotics RFI and a DDS Interoperability RFP or RFC. They plan possible 
>votes to recommend adoption of revised submissions to Streams for CCM, QoS 
>for CCM, and the UML Profile for Voice-Based Applications. They will also 
>hear a presentation on the revised submission to WSDL to C++ mapping, and 
>possibly vote to extend to one more revision cycle, and review initial 
>submissions to the CORBA bindings for WSDL.
>
>Real-Time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems (RTESS) PTF
>The RTESS PTF will review submissions to the High Performance Enablers 
>RFP, the Reliable Ordered Multicast RFP, and Real-time Notification. They 
>will also review two possible RFCs: Real-time Protocols, and 
>System-on-a-Chip. Finally, they will draft new RFPs for OS Services, 
>Secure Audit Service, and RT Fault Tolerance.
>
>
>DOMAIN SIDE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION WORK
>
>Business Enterprise Integration (BEI) DTF
>The BEI DTF will review revised submissions for the Business Semantics of 
>Business Rules RFP, and initial submissions to the Production Rules 
>Representation RFP. They will also consider an RFC for Business Rules 
>Motivational Modeling from the Business Rules group, and support the 
>Enterprise Interoperability Information Day along with ManTIS.
>
>C4I DTF
>The C4I DTF plans a day of presentations on a variety of subjects, 
>meetings of working groups on SOPES and CMS, and work on their reference 
>architecture and roadmap.
>
>Finance DTF
>The Finance DTF will continue work on the reference model for their 
>e-Payment Gateway and their roadmap, and meet with SWIFT.
>
>LSR DTF
>The LSR DTF will review revised submissions to the Gene Expression Query 
>Service RFP.
>
>Manufacturing DTF
>The Manufacturing DTF will support the BEI DTF’s Enterprise Integration 
>Information Day, and work on a revised RFP for their future 
>Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) specification.
>
>Robotics SIG
>The Robotics SIG, newly chartered in Burlingame, will meet in Athens to 
>complete the RFI draft that will start their standards work.
>
>Space DTF
>The Space DTF will host the Space standards consortium CCSDS for the 
>entire week, with an Information Half-Day scheduled for Monday afternoon 
>and many joint working group meetings. They will also review initial 
>submissions to the Space System Monitor and Control Service RFP.
>
>CO-LOCATED MEETINGS
>
>Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS)
>CCSDS will hold the first of an anticipated series of co-located meetings 
>with OMG’s Space DTF, all week with meetings of their Management Council 
>starting late the week before. The meeting week will kick off with an 
>Information Day on Monday afternoon, already described, and continue with 
>both joint and individual subgroup meetings. By co-locating, the industry 
>expects to combine the benefits of both concentrated Space expertise and 
>participation, and OMG’s modeling and other technical expertise, without 
>the expense of attending two separate sets of meetings.
>
>Crisis Response Executive Advisory TEam (CREATE)
>CREATE, co-chaired by former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari and OMG 
>CEO Dr. Richard Soley, will meet on Wednesday, all day.
>
>
>MEETING LINKS:
>Athens Meeting: www.omg.org/athens/8
>Registration: www.omg.org/athens/reg
>
>All information for the Athens meeting, including registration for 
>members, is collected at www.omg.org/registration. You can find out if 
>your company is an OMG member at www.omg.org/memberlist. If it’s not, you 
>can request guest registration at www.omg.org/tcguest. If your company is 
>a member, you’re entitled to access our members-only web pages and email 
>lists; for your personal username and password, send an email to 
>info at omg.org. Agendas for subgroups, tutorials, and information days are 
>posted at www.omg.org/agendas, although subgroup agendas may not be 
>finalized and posted until two weeks before the meeting. All OMG 
>specifications may be downloaded free of charge at www.omg.org/specifications.
>
>For More Information:
>Phone +781-44-0404, email: loughry at omg.org
>
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