------------------------------------------------------------ Call For Papers ACM* Symposium on Document Engineering Atlanta, Georgia, USA November 9-10, 2001 Computer-based systems for creating, distributing and analysing documents are one of the centerpieces of the new ``Information Society.'' Documents are no longer static, physical entities. New document technology allows us to create globally interconnected systems that store information drawn from many media and deliver that information as active documents that adapt to the needs of their users. Furthermore, document technologies like XML are having a profound impact on data modeling in general because of the way they bridge and integrate a variety of paradigms (database, object-oriented, and structured document). Document engineering is an emerging discipline within computer science that investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. Like software engineering, document engineering is concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. Scope ===== The Symposium on Document Engineering (SDE '01) is a new academic conference devoted to the dissemination of research on document engineering. SDE '01 seeks high-quality, original papers and panels that address the theory, design, development and evaluation of computer systems that support the creation, analysis, or distribution of documents in any medium. We, the organizers of SDE '01, hold to an expansive notion of documents. A document is a representation of information that is designed to be read or played back by a person. It may be presented on paper, on a screen, or played through a speaker and its underlying representation may be in any form and include data from any medium. A document may be stored in final presentation form or it may be generated on-the-fly, undergoing substantial transformations in the process. A document may include extensive hyperlinks and be part of a large web of information. Furthermore, apparently independent documents may be composed, so that a web of information may itself be considered a document. Conceptual topics relevant to the symposium include (but are not limited to): Document standards, models, and representation languages Document authoring tools and systems Document presentation (typography, formatting, layout) and interface design Document synchronization and temporal aspects Document structure and content analysis Document categorization and classification Document internationalization Integrating documents with other tools and digital artifacts Document engineering life cycle and processes Document workflow and cooperation Document engineering ``in the large'' Document storage, indexing, and retrieval Automatically generated documents and adaptive documents Performance of document systems Technology that is relevant to the symposium includes (but is not limited to): Markup languages (SGML, XML) Style sheet systems and languages (CSS, XSL, DSSSL) Structured multimedia (MPEG-4, SMIL, MHEG, HyTime) Metadata (MPEG-7, RDF) Document database systems and XQL Optical character recognition Type representations (Adobe Type 1, Truetype) Page description languages (PostScript, PDF) Electronic books (E-book) and digital paper Constraint systems Document transformation (XSLT) Document services on wireless networks (WAP) Document linking standards (XLink, XPath, XPointer) Document APIs (SAX, DOM) Submission ========== The Symposium on Document Engineering invites the submission of research papers and panel proposals. Submission details will be available on the symposium's web site in the near future. The key dates for submission and review are: May 7, 2001 Paper and panel proposal submissions due July 9, 2001 Authors notified August 6, 2001 Revised camera-ready papers due Additional Information ====================== For more information, see the SDE '01 Web page at: http://www.documentengineering.org SDE '01 will be held in conjunction with the 2001 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '01). Organization ============ SDE '01 Program Committee ------------------------- Ethan Munson, Chair, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Heather Brown, University of Exeter, UK Anne Brueggemann-Klein, Technical University of Munich, Germany Les Carr, University of Southampton, UK Rick Furuta, Texas A&M University, USA Roger Hersch, Swiss Federal Technical Institute, Lausanne Rolf Ingold, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Peter King, University of Manitoba, Canada Eila Kuikka, University of Kuopio, Finland Hakon Lie, Opera Software, Norway Robert Morris, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Cecile Roisin, Universite Pierre Mendes and INRIA, France Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, Netherlands Luiz Fernando G. Soares, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, W3C Christine Vanoirbeek, Swiss Federal Technical Institute, Lausanne Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Anne-Marie Vercoustre, CSIRO, Australia Derick Wood, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Document Engineering Steering Committee --------------------------------------- Heather Brown, University of Exeter, UK Anne Brueggemann-Klein, Technical University of Munich, Germany Rolf Ingold, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Peter King, University of Manitoba, Canada Ethan Munson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Cecile Roisin, Universite Pierre Mendes and INRIA, France Christine Vanoirbeek, Swiss Federal Technical Institute, Lausanne * ACM sponsorship is currently awaiting final approval