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["Ed Dodds" <dodds@e-dodds.com>]

OMG Technical Meeting Week Highlights and Overview
Burlingame, CA, USA
January 31 - February 4, 2005

http://www.omg.org/tc-inf

Completed December 9, 2004, eight weeks pre-Meeting, based on preliminary information gathered from wrap-up presentations at the recent Washington, DC meeting and process deadlines. Check the OMG website for confirmation and details as the meeting date approaches, especially the agenda page http://www.omg.org/agendas.

OMG members will meet the week of January 31-February 4 at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, CA, USA, at a meeting sponsored by Boeing Company (www.boeing.com). During the week, members will advance technology through the group's adoption process, attend special events and tutorials, and view demonstrations of OMG-compliant products. 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. An "Early Bird" discount rate is in effect through Monday, January 3, 2005. If you plan to attend only the Information Days, or only tutorials, check the appropriate box on the web form to receive a reduced special event rate.

MEETING WEEK HIGHLIGHTS:
Special Events:
*       Robotics Showcase, Monday, all day.
*       Model Driven Architecture (MDA) FastStart Seminar, Monday afternoon.
*       Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) Information Day, Wednesday, all day.
*       Model Integrated Computing (MIC) Focus Day, Thursday morning.
*       Security Information Day, Thursday, all day.
OMG Tutorial Series:
*       "Introduction to UML 2.0" by Bran Selic, IBM/Rational, on Monday Morning.
*       "Overview of the Software Communications Architecture (SCA)" by Neli Hayes, Boeing Corp, on Tuesday Morning.
*       "Survey of OMG Specifications" by Dr. Jon Siegel, OMG, on Tuesday afternoon.
UML Certification Examinations
*       OMG UML Certification Examinations available nearby Mon-Fri, all day, offering a 15% discount during the meeting week. 

OMG Specifications Work
*       Platform-Side Technology Adoption Work
*       Domain-Side Technology Adoption Work
*       Architecture-Related Work
Co-located Meeting (Separate Registration Required):
*       OSDL 2005 Conference

MEETING DETAILS

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Robotics Showcase, Monday, all day: With speakers from major robotics companies from around the world, the Robotics Showcase will launch OMG's standards effort in robotics at the end of a day of presentations and discussion. Dr. Kazuo Tanie, President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, will introduce the day's program and Paolo Pirjanian, Chief Scientist for Evolution Robotics, will keynote. Speakers and demonstrations from such companies as NEDO, iRobot, and mBus broaden the coverage of robotics, while OMG staff and member presentations introduce the group's technology adoption process and provide an example. A discussion by audience and panel on future directions will conclude the program.

MDA FastStart Seminar, Monday afternoon: OMG's MDA FastStart program will host a seminar on "Bringing in MDA" on Monday afternoon. Focusing on the best ways to bring MDA into an IT organization, the session will feature MDA experts who will share their experiences deploying MDA in different types of enterprises and agencies. This session is free to all, although registration is required

KBE Information Day, Wednesday, all day: On Wednesday, OMG's Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Systems (ManTIS) Domain Task Force (DTF) will host a day of presentations and discussion centering on Knowledge-Based Engineering and the KBE RFP. Following presentations from Boeing, John Deere, NASA, NIST, STEP, and others, the day concludes with a presentation on the KBE RFP and a panel discussion on the role of the proposed OMG standard in the world of KBE.

Model Integrated Computing (MIC) Focus Day, Thursday morning: The Model Integrated Computing PSIG will host a focus day Thursday morning on Aspect-Oriented Modeling. Industry and academic experience reports will be shared from Lucent, Kansas State University, Semantic Designs, Colorado Status University and Trinity College.

Using MDA Techniques for Enterprise Security Services Integration and Management, Thursday, all day: This day of presentations and panels will discuss how to use MDA to build and integrate security services into large enterprise computing infrastructure from the point of view of systems integrators, government users, and enterprises with large stationary and mobile installations. At the end of the day, attendees will discuss possible standards-setting at OMG to address the problems that they identified during the day.

OMG TUTORIAL SERIES:

"Introduction to UML 2.0" by Bran Selic, IBM Rational
Monday morning.
Formal adoption of the first major revision of the UML standard, UML 2.0, will complete before this meeting. 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.

"Overview of the Software Communications Architecture (SCA)" by Neli Hayes, Boeing
Tuesday morning
This half-day tutorial provides an overview of the SCA-an open architecture framework based on open and evolving commercial standards such as CORBA, CORBAservices, CORBA Component Model, and POSIX which, using UML and XML vocabulary, describes how hardware and software elements operate in harmony in an SCA-compliant communication system. Starting with a brief look at the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program mission leading to the reasons for the creation of the SCA, this overview covers the following:

*       What the SCA is, what it is not, and what it enables,
*       SCA's maturity and where it is being used today,
*       An introduction of the SCA specification, supplements, accompanying documents, related SCA-based documents, and available formal training, and finally,

*       An overview of the SCA core architecture rule set, including the Core Framework (CF), and the Domain Profile.

"Survey of OMG Specifications" by Dr. Jon Siegel, OMG
Tuesday afternoon
Dr. Jon Siegel, OMG's Vice President, Technology Transfer, will present the 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.

UML CERTIFICATION EXAMINATIONS

OMG's UML Certification Examinations will be given throughout the week at a testing site near the meeting hotel. You can save 15% by using the voucher code OMGPRO when you take the examination at this or any other Bay Area testing site during the meeting week. It's a good idea to call ahead to the site you select and make an appointment; for more information, see http://www.omg.org/meetingUMLcertinfo or pick up a coupon and information sheet at the meeting. 

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 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 Burlingame 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 this Burlingame, CA, USA meeting, based on information collected at the wrapup presentations in Washington DC and from process deadlines. Since task force plans may change, if you're interested in any 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@omg.org and we'll add you.)

PLATFORM SIDE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION WORK

Analysis and Design (AD) PTF
The ADPTF will review initial submissions to the MOF Model to Text Transformation Language RFP, and revised submissions to four others: the MOF 2.0 Facility and Lifecycle; MOF 2.0 Versioning and Development Lifecycle; Ontology Definition Metamodel; and UML Profile for Systems Engineering. They will also review results of the UML usage survey, DMTF use of UML 2.0 and XMI, and responses to the Agent RFI.

Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM) PTF
The ADM PTF will review revised responses to its RFP 1 for an ADM Knowledge Discovery Metamodel, and edit and vote to issue RFP 2 for a Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM) Extension.

Middleware and Related Services (MARS) PTF
The MARS PTF will review revised submissions with possible votes-to-vote and votes-to-adopt for three current RFPs: Quality of Service (QoS) for CORBA Components; Streams for CORBA Components; and Web Services for Enterprise Collaboration. They also plan to complete and vote to issue an RFP for Anonymous Networks, and vote to release for comments an RFC for a UML Profile for AADL. MARS PTF members will discuss SCA and CCM, hold an Object Database WG meeting and a DDS Next Steps WG meeting, and host a joint OMG-wide meeting to discuss a roadmap for runtime/middleware technologies for the next year.

Real-Time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems (RTESS) PTF
The RTESS PTF will review revised submissions to the High Performance Enablers RFP and the Model Based Testing and Debugging RFP, and plans to vote to recommend adoption. RTESS also plans to draft and possibly issue new RFPs for Fault Tolerance for Minimum and Real-time CORBA systems, OS Services, and a UML Profile for RTESS. They may also review and start the comment periods for RFCs for a Real-time Network Protocol, and a UML Profile for a System-on-a-Chip.

Information and Security Assurance (ISA) PSIG
The ISA PSIG will sponsor a day of presentations on "Using MDA Techniques for Enterprise Security Services Integration and Management" on Thursday.

Model Integrated Computing (MIC) PSIG
The MIC PSIG will host their focus day on Aspect-Oriented Modeling on Thursday morning.

Ontology PSIG
The Ontology PSIG will review submissions to the Ontology Definition Metamodel RFP in a session of the ADTF.

Telecommunications PSIG
The Telecomms PSIG will join the MARS PTF to review revised submissions to RFPs for the WSDL to C++ mapping, Streams for CCM, and QoS for CCM. They will also review initial submissions to the WSDL-CORBA binding RFP, and will participate in the joint Next Steps for CORBA session.

DOMAIN SIDE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION WORK

Business Enterprise Integration (BEI) DTF
The BEI DTF will review initial submissions to their Organization Structure Metamodel RFP, and revised submissions for the Business Semantics of Business Rules RFP. They will also review and possibly vote to start the comment period on an RFC for a Business Motivation Model (BMM).

C4I DTF
The C4I DTF will review initial submissions to their SOPES Information Exchange Data Model RFP, and revised responses to the Generic Sonar Interface RFP. They will also review responses to the Generic Sonar Interface RFI, and draft a SOPES PMS RFP and a CMS Access Control & Organization Management RFP.

Finance DTF
The Finance DTF will meet on Tuesday to polish its draft RFP for an e-Payment Gateway Architecture, and possibly shape a second RFP for security in distributed financial and payment systems. As part of this work, they will hear reports on progress in the e-Authentication Partnership and the FSTC e-Authentication Proof-of-Concept project where OMG and IBM are introducing UML into the design of a proof-of-concept demonstration implementation. 

Healthcare DTF
The Healthcare DTF will meet on Thursday to review and vote to approve their new Mission Statement, and work on their standards roadmap and first RFP.

LSR DTF
The LSR DTF will meet on Thursday where they are scheduled to review revised responses to the Biochemical Pathways RFP. 

Software Based Communications (SBC) DTF
The SBC DTF will meet on Tuesday and Thursday to continue work on two security RFPs, covering Transmission Security and Audit Logs.

Space DTF
Following this meeting in Burlingame, OMG members will meet in June in Athens, Greece. In Athens, the Space standards organization CCSDS will meet co-located with OMG Space DTF. In Burlingame, the Space DTF will discuss plans for this meeting and schedule presentations for its part of the Space Information Day that the two groups will share in June. The Space DTF will also hear a report on progress in the XTCE FTF, and draft the DTC motion that will form the XTCE RTF. They expect to start drafting an RFP for a Scripting Language or Automation Service based on responses to their recent RFI, and prepare for a possible RFC of a space-oriented messaging standard from NASA Goddard Mission Systems Evolution Center (GMSEC).

ARCHITECTURE-RELATED WORK:

Specification Management Subcommittee
The Specification Management SC will meet on Wednesday to continue work on publication priorities and the MDA product specification.

Object and Reference Model SC (ORMSC):
The ORMSC will hold an open workshop session on MDA Guide Revision on Sunday afternoon, and their plenary on Monday morning. 

CO-LOCATED MEETINGS:
The OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit will take place Monday through Wednesday. Featuring Linux notables Linus Torvalds, Mitch Kapor, and others, the Summit emphasizes Linux in the Enterprise. This event requires separate registration, available at www.osdllinuxsummit.org.

For more information: http://www.omg.org/tc-inf
For Registration: http://www.omg.org/tc-r

MEETING LINKS:
All information for the Burlingame, CA, USA meeting, including registration for members, is collected at http://www.omg.org/tc-inf. You can find out if your company is an OMG member at www.omg.org/memberlist. If it's not, you can request guest observer 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@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.

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