CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
2nd Workshop on The ACE ORB (TAO)
Booz Allen Hamilton Virginia Square Conference Center
3811 N. Fairfax Dr. Suite 600 Arlington, VA.
Friday, July 19th, 2002
An increasing number of research, commercial, and defense projects are
using The ACE ORB
(TAO) to build distributed, real-time, and/or general-purpose
computing applications in a wide variety of real-world domains. TAO's
continued success is a testament to the talents and commitment of many
developers and users in the ACE+TAO community. To build upon the
success of the ACE+TAO community and last year's TAO
workshop, we are organizing a new one day workshop consisting of
presentations and panel discussions by members of the TAO community.
To minimize travel costs, this workshop will occur the day after the
OMG Real-Time
and Embedded Distributed Object Computing Workshop (sponsored by
DARPA IXO) and will be held near the OMG workshop.
The TAO workshop will bring together the research, engineering, and
business segments of the TAO community for an open discussion on
- Interesting research and product development being done with TAO
- Where the primary needs of the community lie and
- What the future plans are for TAO and its developer, user, and
support bases.
The workshop will include an overview of the internals of the TAO ORB
by the developers who are actively involved in the project.
Key Topics
We are soliciting 20-minute presentations on topics related to:
- TAO's technical content
- Its application to real-world systems
- Its use and extension in research projects
- Lessons learned from the TAO open-source community
- Migrating to TAO from other ORB implementations
- Ideas for TAO's future research and evolution
Some example topics might include the following:
- Pushing scalability: very small, very large, and what connects the two
- Interoperation with endsystems and other ORBs
- Successful examples of dual-use, i.e., defense and commercial
applications, of TAO
- Performance evaluation of TAO-based systems
- Integrating TAO with design-time and run-time tools, such as
model-integrated computing tools, distributed debuggers and visualization tools, and online monitoring tools.
- Integrating TAO with other (emerging) middleware technologies, such as Web
services and scripting tools, SOAP, Grid
high-performance parallel/clustered computing architectures, and
the OMG Model Driven Architecture
- Using TAO for applications with multiple "ilities", e.g.,
dependability, security, intrusion tolerance, distributed, real-time, and/or embedded
systems, etc.
- Lessons learned (good and bad) from case studies of using TAO in the real-world (patterns and pitfalls)
Naturally, we also welcome contributions pertaining to other relevant
topics, as well.
We are also soliciting ideas for--and participants in--panels relevant
to the TAO community. Some candidate ideas for panels include:
- Developers and users round-table: Taking TAO forward
- Leveraging the open-source development process
- Expanding open-source business models
Please indicate your interest in attending this workshop, panels
(including ideas for new ones) in which you would like to participate,
and/or topics of interest on which you would like to present by
sending e-mail to Chris Gill at cdgill@dre.vanderbilt.edu.
Submission Guidelines
If you would like to make a technical presentation, please send a
short (i.e., around 1,000 words) position paper describing your
technical presentation to Chris Gill at cdgill@dre.vanderbilt.edu. Likewise,
if you would like to participate in a panel, please submit a brief
summary (i.e., around 500 words) of the perspective you will present.
Technical presenters should expect to give a 20 minute talk, and each
panel participant should expect to give a 5 minute synopsis, with
questions and discussion to follow the panelists presentations.
Important Dates
- Friday, June 14th: Workshop position papers due
- Friday, June 14th: Panel topics and synopses due
- Friday, June 21st: Notification to presenters
- Monday, June 28th: Hotel reservation deadline
- Friday, July 12th: Workshop registration deadline
- Friday, July 19th: Workshop in Arlington, VA
Program Organization
Program Chair
- Chris Gill, Washington University, St. Louis
Program Committee
- Ron Akers, Motorola Research, USA
- Chris Cleeland, Object Computing Inc (OCI), USA
- Joseph Cross, Lockheed Martin, USA
- Lou DiPalma, Raytheon, USA
- Andy Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
- Michael Kircher, Siemens Research, Germany
- Peter Kortmann, Tripacific, USA
- Leslie Madden, Naval Surface Weapons Center (NSWC), USA
- Trudy Morgan, SPAWAR Systems Center SD, USA
- Bala Natarjan, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
- Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA
- Russell Noseworthy, Object Sciences Corp, USA
- Ossama Othman, University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA
- Irfan Pyarali, OOMWorks, USA
- Jeff Parsons, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
- Craig Rodrigues, BBN Technologies, USA
- Vijay Raghavan, DARPA IXO, USA
- Douglas C. Schmidt, DARPA IXO, USA
- David Sharp, The Boeing Company, USA
- Vic Fay-Wolfe, University of Rhode Island, USA
- Johnny Willemsen, Remedy IT, The Netherlands
Location and Registration
Booz Allen Hamilton Virginia Square Conference Center
at 3811 N. Fairfax Dr. Suite 600 Arlington, VA.
The following URL below enables you to register online and provides
the workshop/local hotel information.
http://www.eventmakeronline.com/sta/view/index.asp?meetingid=19