"ODP Symposium" - Open distributed processing talks

ODP stands for Open Distributed Processing. The ODP work aims for distributed information processing systems to be exploited efficiently disregard of the difficulties created by heterogeneous computing environment. Especially interesting is automatic sharing of services across organisational domain boundaries, i.e., under the presence of problems caused by autonomy on business policies and service evolution cycles.

One of the essential activities on this field is that of ODP standardisation under the auspices of ISO and ITU-T. The work has been going on over ten years, and has had continuous impact on TINA architecture for telecommunication and OMG technologies for more general computing on CORBA platforms.

After the basic reference model was published in 1995, work has continued on more detailed function standards, like traders and type repositories, and on more detailed viewpoint language standards, like ODP enterprise language. The two function standards are joint work with OMG; the viewpoint languages are beginning to win ground too.

In conjunction with an international editing meeting on ODP Enterprise language in Helsinki (March 6-14, 2001) we organise some visiting lectures by the members of the editing group.

The talks will show how ODP ideas are brought to real life systems and software engineering tasks.

Everyone interested to see how ODP ideas are put to work is welcome to attend and discuss the topic.

Time and place

The ODP symposium takes place in Room A516 at

Department of Computer Science
University of Helsinki
POBox 26 (Teollisuuskatu 23)

on Thursday March 8, 2001 at 14.15 - 18.00.

Preregistration is recommended to (Juha.Haataja@cs.Helsinki.FI), but not a requirement of attendance. The event is free.

Program

14.15 - 14.30 Opening words, introductions
14.30 - 15.15 Alexander Tyndale-Biscoe, Open-IT, UK: Practical Use of the RM-ODP - The COMBINE Project
15.30 - 16.15 Haim Kilov, Iona Technologies, US: Business specifications and RM-ODP
Break
16.45 - 17.30 Joaquin Miller, Financial Systems Architects, US: How communities work together
17.30 - 18.00 Discussion

Some background material

Peter Linington, An ODP approach to the development of large middleware systems. Distributed applications and interoperable systems II
Kutvonen, L., Architectures for Distributed Systems: Open Distributed Processing Reference Model. HeCSE Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Distributed Systems.
ODP reference model
Trygve Reenskaug, P. Wold and O. A. Lehne, Working With Objects : The Ooram Software Engineering Method: the sections on role model synthesis.

Related activities

Welcome!

Lea.Kutvonen@cs.Helsinki.FI