Academic WG Wiki

Welcome to the Academic WG wiki

The OMG Academic Working Group (AWG) was formed on 27 September 2018.

1. Mission Statement

The Academic Working Group looks at improving communications and generating opportunities for collaboration between OMG, industry and academic institutions. This could take the form of:

Investigating where OMG standards can assist in the development of curricula, including certification courses related to OMG specifications (UML, SysML, BPMN, etc.) – see 4.1
Proposing research project topics, in particular but not limited to computer science departments, that can inform the development of OMG specifications and standards – see 4.3
Leveraging OMG specifications to improve academic operations
Identifying existing academic courses and projects where OMG standards are used
Facilitating access by academia to tools that implement OMG standards (in order to support such teaching and research)
Providing mutual speaking opportunities for academics and OMG members
Helping OMG member universities share information that may result in collaboration with commercial and government members

2. Co-Chairs

The co-Chairs of the AWG are:

Charles Dickerson (Loughborough University)
Jason McC. Smith (Elemental Reasoning)

Co-chair roles and responsibilities are less formal in an OMG Working Group than they are in a Special Interest Group or Task Force. There are no formal policies and procedures about the organization of a WG. Membership in the AWG is open, free, and not restricted to holders of an OMG membership. However, co-chairs must be from an OMG member company.

Diane Ehramjian (OMG Business Development) and Claude Baudoin (cébé IT & Knowledge Management) are assisting the co-chairs in meeting planning, outreach, and maintenance of this wiki.

3. Meetings

The AWG plans to operate through a mix of teleconferences and face-to-face meetings held during OMG Technical Meetings. Our first meeting is planned for Sunday, 9 December 2018, 5:00-7:00 pm Pacific time, in Renton, WA (Seattle).

All members of the AWG can be reached at the address academic-wg@omg.org. To ask to be added to this list, click here.

4. Deliverables

4.1. Catalog of academic courses and research projects

This subsection lists academic research projects, courses, and certification programs that use OMG standards or otherwise have relevance to OMG work.

Title	Organizations	Summary	Link	Relevant OMG standards
Programme for Simulation Innovation	Loughborough University, Sheffield University	Funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Jaguar Land Rover	Article	UPR (UML Profile for ROSETTA)
Cloud Application Modeling Language (CAML)	TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna)	2016 thesis by Alexander Bergmayr on “cloud-specific extensions to UML and a toolset that together form an architecture style for developing cloud applications”	Thesis	UML

Partial list of academic disciplines and relevant OMG standards or groups:

Discipline	Relevant OMG Standards
Business	BMM, SBVR, BPMN, CMM, DMN, FIBO
Computer Science	CORBA, IDL, UML, Essence, SBC, DDS, some RDTF standards, CISQ-originated standards (Automated Source Code Measurements), Diagram Interchange, etc. – most MARS and all ADTF standards
Engineering	SysML, Systems Assurance Case Metamodel (SACM), SBC, MARTE, etc.
Aerospace	CubeSat Reference Model
Law	Data Governance

4.2. Directory of contacts

The following table, under construction, lists contacts we have in academic institutions, their areas of interest, and who at OMG has a connection with them. That last column may be blank for contacts who spontaneously responded to our solicitation messages.

Institution	Country St./Prov.	Faculty or Official	Interests	OMG Contact
Carnegie-Mellon University – Software Engineering Institute	USA PA	Carol S. Woody Email	Cybersecurity: defining, acquiring, developing, measuring, managing, and sustaining secure software for highly complex networked systems as well as systems of systems.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	USA FL	Prof. Radu F. Babiceanu Email	Systems Engineering, Systems Assurance, Cybersecurity
Loughborough University	UK	Prof. Charles Dickerson Email	Mathematically-based system architecture and engineering	(member)
		Dr. Siyuan Ji Email
		Hao Liang Email
		David Mulvaney Email
NASA University Small Satellite Program	USA CA	Jim Cockrell Email	CubeSat Reference Model (CSRM)	Steve MacLaird
Princeton University	USA NJ	Dr. Jen Rexford	Computer Science: Internet and network management	Claude Baudoin
Stanford University	USA CA	Christina Doane Email	High-performance computing (HPC) for research, storage of sensitive data	Claude Baudoin
Universidad Panamericana	Mexico CDMX	Prof. Mario Acevedo Alvarado Email	Creating an education program on enterprise architecture, including courses on UML and BPMN leading to certifications	Claude Baudoin
University of British Columbia	Canada BC	Prof. Margo Seltzer	Data provenance and pedigree	Claude Baudoin
University of California at San Diego	USA CA	Vince Kellen	CIO / Big Data	Claude Baudoin
University College Cork	Ireland	Prof. Thomas Butler	Professor in Business Information Systems	Mike Bennett
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA NC	Dr. Kevin Jeffay	Computer Science Dept.	Jason McC. Smith
University of Washington	USA WA	Robinson Center for Young Scholars	Accelerated Education	Jason McC. Smith

For a full list of the universities and research institutes that are members of OMG, search here. Or see a map of those institutions (you can pan, zoom, and see the name of each institution by mousing over the pin).

4.3. Collaborations in Progress

The table below will list OMG-Academia collaborations once some have started.

The Methods & Tools PSIG reported in September 2018 that it is looking into collaboration with K-12 and academic institutions to expand the market for Essence packages through education. Companies interested in publishing “essentialized” methods supported by their tools are usually willing to provide free or discounted licenses to academic institutions.

Title	Subject	Value to OMG	Value to the academic partner	Schedule	Who is involved

4.4. Academic outreach topics per specification

Each specification listed below connects to a page with a list of research topics that specification authors and experts would find useful to collaborate over with academia.

BPMN

DMN

SBVR

4.5. Minimal Knowledge Sets per specification

Each specification listed below connects to a page with a collection of ideas and comments around which to start forming a minimal knowledge set for each standard. The intent is to gather and refine the material that an undergraduate or graduate student would need, at a minimum, to be able to begin engaging with a specification in a meaningful way.

BPMN

DMN

SBVR