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Call for Participation
OMG's Second Annual Architecture-Driven Modernization Workshop:
A Model-driven Approach to Modernizing IT Systems
October 24-27, 2005
Washington, DC
Sponsored by:Klocwork
Introduction
Existing software assets are defined as any production-enabled
software, regardless of the platform it runs on, language it is written
in, or length of time it has been in production. Existing software
assets have entered the maintenance and evolution mode.
Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM) is the process of understanding
and evolving existing software assets for the purpose of software
improvement; modifications; interoperability; re-factoring;
restructuring; reuse; porting; migration; translation into another
language; and enterprise application integration. Modernization starts
where existing practices fail to deliver against business objectives. A
model-driven approach to modernization, leveraging existing Object
Management Group (OMG) modeling standards and its
Model Driven Architecture (MDA) initiative, promotes revitalization of
existing applications and systems, making them more agile and extending
their useful life. This approach also improves productivity of software
development, reducing maintenance effort and cost.
Hosted by the OMG and its ADM Task Force and co-sponsored by Klocwork
(additional co-sponsorships available), this Workshop will explore
concepts related to the understanding, improvement, redesign, migration
and redeployment of existing software assets. Practitioners with
relevant experience are invited to share their experiences with each
other and their vendor community. The Workshop is open to all with an
interest in, and understanding of the topic of ways in which to improve
and extend the life of valuable software assets. Workshop participants
will include implementers (architects, modelers, developers, systems
integrators), large end-user organizations, technology providers, and
representatives of standards bodies.
Workshop Focus and Format
The four-day Workshop Program will explore experience reports,
technology issues and choices for ADM that were designed using industry
standards and specifications. It will address commercially available or
evolving technologies, methodologies, tools and standards related to
ADM. While research topics are not excluded, the emphasis, as with all
OMG activity, is on real-world experience. Each Workshop day will have
a theme. A
Demonstration Area will be provided to showcase commercial offerings
supporting ADM. The Workshop Program is structured as follows.
Day 1: The Workshop Program will begin with half-day tutorials.
- "Modernization 101" for those new to modernization; serves as a level
set (vocabulary, concept)
- Advanced ADM topics:
- Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM)
- Abstract Syntax Tree Metamodel (ASTM)
- Emerging standards
- Applying MDA to modernization
The remaining three days feature keynotes, sessions and panels
addressing a specific theme for that day. Starting with a keynote
setting the tone for the day's theme, sessions will explore that theme
in depth by the Session Chair providing a 5-10 minute overview of the
session topic leading into three or more 30-minute presentations.
Sessions
will conclude with Q&A directed to all of the presenters. Completing
each day will be 60- or 90-minute panels. The panel format provides
invited panelists with an opportunity to make a short position
statement, after which the floor is open to general Q&A from the
audience.
Day 2: ADM Roadmap
OMG standardization activities related to architecture-driven
modernization that are underway, planned or should be considered.
Day 3: Usage scenarios
Scenarios should be drawn from the ADM Task Force's white paper,
"Modernization Scenarios: Mapping the KDM to Modernization
Initiatives."
Day 4: Enterprise Case Study (multiple parts to the study)
1. Enterprise Assessment: Setting Modernization Strategy
a. Identifies next steps and prospective projects (this can set the
stage for the following parts)
2 .Enterprise Planning
a. Top-down / Bottom-up mapping using ADM as an assessment and planning
tool
b. Includes data and rule capture as well as input to target
specification
3. Transformation Planning for multiple applications: Target SOA
a. Techniques that integrate MDA with general transformation
capabilities
4. Assessment I: Distributed systems components
a. uses KDM concepts
5. Assessment II: Mainframe, COBOL components
a. includes integration with assessment one
6. Mapping results to top-down target specifications
7. Rule extraction, reuse, redesign, modularizing applications
8. Language / platform transformation of reusable components
9. Final redeployment and deactivation of current systems (phasing
strategy)
Call For Proposals
The Workshop Program Committee is seeking proposals for session
presentations, panels or tutorials addressing the themes and topics
noted in the Workshop Focus and Format noted above.
Instructions
Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief
abstract of the presentation or position paper they are proposing for a
Workshop session, tutorial or panel along with proposed duration and a
brief personal biography using the web form found at
http://www.omg.org/abstracts. Abstracts should be no longer than 600
words
in length. Only 3 abstracts per individual will be accepted.
Biographies should be no longer than 100 words. The Program Committee
will need schedule flexibility, so please keep in mind that a proposal
may be accepted, but not granted the full time proposed.
No advertisements, please! While referencing commercial products to
reinforce a premise or case study is quite acceptable, the Program
Committee will not accept proposals that are deemed "product pitches."
(A Demonstration Area will be provided to showcase commercial
offerings.)
Note for panel proposals: Please describe the topic and nominate a
moderator and panelists, by name or by role
(e.g. "A tool vendor", "an OMG Architecture Board member"), and time
required.
Schedule
Issue Call for Proposals June 7, 2005
Deadline for abstracts July 22, 2005
Notification of submitters July 27, 2005
Final Workshop agenda August 1, 2005
Deadline for final presentations September 30, 2005
Workshop (Washington, DC) October 24-27, 2005
Workshop Speaker Registration Fees
Submitters of all accepted proposals are eligible for a discounted
375.00 USD "Early Bird" Fee or 475.00 USD
Workshop Speaker Registration Fee.
Information
If you have any questions or require additional information about the
Workshop program or venue, please send email to (e-mail address removed).
Program Committee
Barbara Errickson, EDS
Jeff Gray, Univ. Alabama Birmingham
Chris Caputo, BluePhoenix
Kevin Loughry, OMG (Event)
Djenana Campara, klocwork, inc.
Mike Oara, Relativity Technology
Donal Daly, Oracle
Philip Newcomb, TSRI
Fred Waskiewicz, OMG (Program)
Sara Porat, IBM
Ira Baxter, Semantic Designs
William Ulrich, TSG
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About The OMG
The Object Management Group (OMG) is an international, open membership,
not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. OMG member
companies write, adopt, and maintain its standards following a mature,
open process. OMG's standards implement the Model Driven
Architecture(®) (MDA(®)), maximizing ROI through a full-lifecycle
approach to enterprise integration that covers multiple operating
systems, programming languages, middleware and networking
infrastructures, and software development environments. OMG's standards
include: UML(®) (Unified Modeling Language(TM) ); CORBA® (Common
Object Request Broker Architecture); CWM(TM) (Common Warehouse
Metamodel); and industry-specific standards for dozens of vertical
markets. OMG has offices at 250 First Ave., Suite 100, Needham, MA
02494 USA.
OMG's Second Annual Architecture-Driven Modernization Workshop:
A Model-driven Approach to Modernizing IT Systems
October 24-27, 2005
Washington, DC
Sponsored by:Klocwork
Introduction
Existing software assets are defined as any production-enabled
software, regardless of the platform it runs on, language it is written
in, or length of time it has been in production. Existing software
assets have entered the maintenance and evolution mode.
Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM) is the process of understanding
and evolving existing software assets for the purpose of software
improvement; modifications; interoperability; re-factoring;
restructuring; reuse; porting; migration; translation into another
language; and enterprise application integration. Modernization starts
where existing practices fail to deliver against business objectives. A
model-driven approach to modernization, leveraging existing Object
Management Group (OMG) modeling standards and its
Model Driven Architecture (MDA) initiative, promotes revitalization of
existing applications and systems, making them more agile and extending
their useful life. This approach also improves productivity of software
development, reducing maintenance effort and cost.
Hosted by the OMG and its ADM Task Force and co-sponsored by Klocwork
(additional co-sponsorships available), this Workshop will explore
concepts related to the understanding, improvement, redesign, migration
and redeployment of existing software assets. Practitioners with
relevant experience are invited to share their experiences with each
other and their vendor community. The Workshop is open to all with an
interest in, and understanding of the topic of ways in which to improve
and extend the life of valuable software assets. Workshop participants
will include implementers (architects, modelers, developers, systems
integrators), large end-user organizations, technology providers, and
representatives of standards bodies.
Workshop Focus and Format
The four-day Workshop Program will explore experience reports,
technology issues and choices for ADM that were designed using industry
standards and specifications. It will address commercially available or
evolving technologies, methodologies, tools and standards related to
ADM. While research topics are not excluded, the emphasis, as with all
OMG activity, is on real-world experience. Each Workshop day will have
a theme. A
Demonstration Area will be provided to showcase commercial offerings
supporting ADM. The Workshop Program is structured as follows.
Day 1: The Workshop Program will begin with half-day tutorials.
- "Modernization 101" for those new to modernization; serves as a level
set (vocabulary, concept)
- Advanced ADM topics:
- Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM)
- Abstract Syntax Tree Metamodel (ASTM)
- Emerging standards
- Applying MDA to modernization
The remaining three days feature keynotes, sessions and panels
addressing a specific theme for that day. Starting with a keynote
setting the tone for the day's theme, sessions will explore that theme
in depth by the Session Chair providing a 5-10 minute overview of the
session topic leading into three or more 30-minute presentations.
Sessions
will conclude with Q&A directed to all of the presenters. Completing
each day will be 60- or 90-minute panels. The panel format provides
invited panelists with an opportunity to make a short position
statement, after which the floor is open to general Q&A from the
audience.
Day 2: ADM Roadmap
OMG standardization activities related to architecture-driven
modernization that are underway, planned or should be considered.
Day 3: Usage scenarios
Scenarios should be drawn from the ADM Task Force's white paper,
"Modernization Scenarios: Mapping the KDM to Modernization
Initiatives."
Day 4: Enterprise Case Study (multiple parts to the study)
1. Enterprise Assessment: Setting Modernization Strategy
a. Identifies next steps and prospective projects (this can set the
stage for the following parts)
2 .Enterprise Planning
a. Top-down / Bottom-up mapping using ADM as an assessment and planning
tool
b. Includes data and rule capture as well as input to target
specification
3. Transformation Planning for multiple applications: Target SOA
a. Techniques that integrate MDA with general transformation
capabilities
4. Assessment I: Distributed systems components
a. uses KDM concepts
5. Assessment II: Mainframe, COBOL components
a. includes integration with assessment one
6. Mapping results to top-down target specifications
7. Rule extraction, reuse, redesign, modularizing applications
8. Language / platform transformation of reusable components
9. Final redeployment and deactivation of current systems (phasing
strategy)
Call For Proposals
The Workshop Program Committee is seeking proposals for session
presentations, panels or tutorials addressing the themes and topics
noted in the Workshop Focus and Format noted above.
Instructions
Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief
abstract of the presentation or position paper they are proposing for a
Workshop session, tutorial or panel along with proposed duration and a
brief personal biography using the web form found at
http://www.omg.org/abstracts. Abstracts should be no longer than 600
words
in length. Only 3 abstracts per individual will be accepted.
Biographies should be no longer than 100 words. The Program Committee
will need schedule flexibility, so please keep in mind that a proposal
may be accepted, but not granted the full time proposed.
No advertisements, please! While referencing commercial products to
reinforce a premise or case study is quite acceptable, the Program
Committee will not accept proposals that are deemed "product pitches."
(A Demonstration Area will be provided to showcase commercial
offerings.)
Note for panel proposals: Please describe the topic and nominate a
moderator and panelists, by name or by role
(e.g. "A tool vendor", "an OMG Architecture Board member"), and time
required.
Schedule
Issue Call for Proposals June 7, 2005
Deadline for abstracts July 22, 2005
Notification of submitters July 27, 2005
Final Workshop agenda August 1, 2005
Deadline for final presentations September 30, 2005
Workshop (Washington, DC) October 24-27, 2005
Workshop Speaker Registration Fees
Submitters of all accepted proposals are eligible for a discounted
375.00 USD "Early Bird" Fee or 475.00 USD
Workshop Speaker Registration Fee.
Information
If you have any questions or require additional information about the
Workshop program or venue, please send email to (e-mail address removed).
Program Committee
Barbara Errickson, EDS
Jeff Gray, Univ. Alabama Birmingham
Chris Caputo, BluePhoenix
Kevin Loughry, OMG (Event)
Djenana Campara, klocwork, inc.
Mike Oara, Relativity Technology
Donal Daly, Oracle
Philip Newcomb, TSRI
Fred Waskiewicz, OMG (Program)
Sara Porat, IBM
Ira Baxter, Semantic Designs
William Ulrich, TSG
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About The OMG
The Object Management Group (OMG) is an international, open membership,
not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. OMG member
companies write, adopt, and maintain its standards following a mature,
open process. OMG's standards implement the Model Driven
Architecture(®) (MDA(®)), maximizing ROI through a full-lifecycle
approach to enterprise integration that covers multiple operating
systems, programming languages, middleware and networking
infrastructures, and software development environments. OMG's standards
include: UML(®) (Unified Modeling Language(TM) ); CORBA® (Common
Object Request Broker Architecture); CWM(TM) (Common Warehouse
Metamodel); and industry-specific standards for dozens of vertical
markets. OMG has offices at 250 First Ave., Suite 100, Needham, MA
02494 USA.