Object Management Group Chairs Report on Future Standard Initiatives

NEEDHAM, Mass., Oct. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Chairs of the Object Management Group® (OMG®) Task Forces (TFs) and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) presented updates about their standards work during a plenary session on the last day of the OMG quarterly membership meeting, which took place from September 24-28 in Ottawa, Canada. At the meeting, the OMG board of directors adopted four new specifications and five updated specifications, while the Platform and Domain Task Forces issued six RFPs, two RFIs and one RFC. OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit technology standards consortium where members develop and maintain standards that influence the future direction of technology as well as industries including space, government, finance, manufacturing, robotics, retail and healthcare.

The following Chairs reported on their groups' accomplishments:

    --  Claude Baudoin, co-chair of the Business Modeling & Integration Domain
        Task Force (BMI DTF) and owner and principal consultant at cébé IT and
        Knowledge Management: "The BMI DTF made significant progress toward
        enabling the joint modeling of BPMN(TM) (processes), CMMN(TM) (cases)
        and DMN(TM) (decisions) by users, through an upcoming white paper and an
        RFP for a metamodel of the common elements across those three
        complementary specifications."
    --  Cory Casanave, co-chair of the Government Domain Task Force and
        president of Model Driven Solutions: "The OMG Government Domain Task
        Force planned a revision of NIEM(TM)-UML® to comply with the NIEM PMO's
        4.1 release."
    --  Tadashi Furuhata, co-chair of the WS-POS Version 1.3.1 Finalization Task
        Force and web application system architect at Seiko Epson Corporation:
        "The UPOSVer.1.16 Retail Communication Service Device RFP was issued,
        which seeks to define the interface between the UnifiedPOS standard and
        a robotic device."
    --  Uwe Kaufmann, co-chair of the Manufacturing Technology and Industrial
        Systems Domain Task Force (ManTIS DTF) and CEO at Model Alchemy
        Consulting: "ManTIS DTF recommended the Simple Electronic Notation for
        Sensor Reporting (SENSR) RFP and voted Christian Muggeo (CONTACT
        Software) as new co-chair."
    --  Brad Kizzort, co-chair of the Space Domain Task Force (DTF) and chief
        technologist at Harris Corporation: "The Space DTF published a Request
        for Proposals for a CubeSat System Reference Model in SysML® to provide
        a template for Model-Based Systems Engineering of CubeSat missions."
    --  Jim Logan, co-chair of the Analysis and Design Platform Task Force
        (ADTF) and principal architect at No Magic, Inc.: "The ADTF recommended
        issuance of the MARTE 2.0 RFI. This RFI seek inputs from the community
        in which MARTE is used to account for new design and analysis techniques
        that have emerged since the inception of UML Profile for MARTE(TM) 12
        years ago."
    --  Bart McGlothin, chair of the Retail Domain Task Force and solution
        architect at Cisco: "Retail was rocking with another outstanding and
        productive meeting including two new RFPs issued: Fiscal API service and
        a Retail Communications Service Device (Robots in Retail) for Unified
        POS, and completing the FTF for Video Analytics!"
    --  Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, co-chair of the Data-Distribution Service(TM)
        (DDS(TM)) Platform Special Interest Group (SIG) and CTO of Real-Time
        Innovations: "A new RFP to deploy DDS(TM) on Time-Sensitive Networks
        (TSN) was issued. The SIG also presented an overview of DDS at the
        special event "Standards for the Federal & Provincial Governments of
        Canada."
    --  Charlotte Wales, co-chair of the Middleware and Related Services (MARS)
        PTF and Lead Software Engineer at The MITRE Corporation: "The MARS TF
        started a new technology process (issued an RFP) to extend the existing
        family of DDS specifications so DDS implementations can be deployed on
        and leverage Time Sensitive Network (TSN)-enabled networks and welcomed
        new member MicroFocus, who presented a solution for using CORBA® over
        web services."
    --  Dennis E. Wisnosky, chair of the FIBO® Finalization Task Forces and
        EDMC, Senior Consultant - Head of FIBO Development: "The Financial
        Domain Task Force voted by "white ballot" to submit the Finance Industry
        Business Ontology® (FIBO) 2.0 spec to the OMG Architecture Board, which
        subsequently voted to release the spec for comment."

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