[ecoop-info] CFP: 4th Workshop on Object-oriented Modeling of Embedded Real-Time Systems (OMER 4)

[Holger Giese]

                            Call for Papers

               4th Workshop on Object-oriented Modeling of
                   Embedded Real-Time Systems (OMER 4)

October 30 and 31, 2007, Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany.
                     http://omer4.uni-paderborn.de

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                 Paper Submission Deadline: 1st July 2007
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Scope

Most of the technical systems which make up our daily environment such
as cars or airplanes are unthinkable in their current form without the
hidden complex embedded software which controls and coordinates their
behavior. As the embedded software of advanced technical systems not
only realizes the fundamental functionality, but is today often also
employed to realize the main competitive advantages of a product,
embedded software has become the main driver for innovations in many
technical fields.

Model-based development and automatic code generation have become an
established technology on the functional level. However, their seamless
support for the system level and its object-oriented modeling remains
challenging. The adaptation and improvement of object-oriented,
component-based, and model-based methods which promise to facilitate the
development, deployment, and reuse of software components in embedded
environments therefore has gained much attention in industry and
academia. The domain-specific constraints of technical systems such as
real-time requirements, resource limitations and specific hardware
dependencies, however, have often impeded the acceptance of appropriate
object-oriented modeling techniques and model-based development approaches.

This workshop therefore focuses on the current trends in the automotive
industry and related fields towards system architectures, software reuse
and complexity management. This fourth workshop in the OMER series aims
like the preceding events to bring together industry and academia to
encourage communication on the achievements and needs of object-oriented
modeling and model-based development of embedded real-time systems. It
places special emphasis on the remaining challenges, especially on how
to further integrate the software engineering and control engineering
worlds. Suggested areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following topics:
- Architectures/frameworks for platform independent, reusable software
components
- Code-generation
- Component interoperability
- Formal verification at the model and code level
- Integration with control theory and functional modeling
- Model-driven development and model transformations
- Modeling self-optimizing or self-adaptive behavior
- Multi-agent systems for mechatronic systems
- Offline or real-time simulation
- Object-oriented acausal models (e.g. Modelica)
- Software components as products
- Software quality
- Model management
- Standards and guidelines (e.g., AUTOSAR, IEC 61508, MISRA, UML, …)
- Respective trends in automotive software development

Submission

Position papers of four to six pages should be submitted electronically
as PDF (see http://omer4.uni-paderborn.de). The proceedings will be
published as a technical report. It is planned that revised versions of
the papers will be published in a book after the workshop.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline      1st July 2007
Notification of acceptance     1st August 2007
Camera-ready papers due        1st September 2007

Program Chairs
Holger Giese, University of Paderborn, Germany
Joachim Stroop, dSPACE GmbH, Germany

Local Chair
Matthias Gehrke, University of Paderborn, Germany

Program Committee
H. Dörr, Carmeq GmbH, Germany
U. Freund, ETAS GmbH, Germany
S. Graf, Verimag, France
H. Hansson, Mälardalen University, Sweden
U. Honekamp, Vector Informatik, Germany
H. Hungar, OFFIS, Oldenburg, Germany
S. Jähnichen, TU Berlin/Fhg FIRST, Germany
S. Kowalewski, RWTH Aachen, Germany
I. Krüger, UC San Diego, USA
P. Mosterman, The MathWorks, USA
R. Rinat, Telelogic, Israel
S. Rooks, IBM Rational Software, United Kingdom
B. Rumpe, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
B. Sanchez, Siemens VDO Automotive, France
W. Schäfer, University of Paderborn, Germany
B. Schätz, TU Munich, Germany
A. Schürr, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
M. Törngren, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
M. von der Beeck, BMW AG, Germany
J. Ziegler, Nokia, Helsinki, Finland

Main Sponsors
dSPACE GmbH

Secondary Sponsors
s-lab, University of Paderborn
SFB 614, University of Paderborn

Other Supporters
Joint Interest Group on Modeling of the German Informatics Society (GI)