DocEng 2003 Call for Papers

Call for Papers
Symposium on Document Engineering 2003
Grenoble, France
November 20-22, 2003

Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB and INRIA
in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGIR


Documents are one of the centerpieces of 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. A document may be stored in 
final presentation form or it may be generated on-the-fly, undergoing 
substantial transformations in the process.  Documents, that may include 
extensive hyperlinks, also make available structured collections of information 
on which to anchor automated reasoning, such as promoted through the Semantic 
Web. 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, knowledge representation, and structured 
document).
The Symposium on Document Engineering is an academic conference devoted to the 
dissemination of research on models, tools and processes that improve our 
ability to create, manage and maintain documents. DocEng 2003, the third annual 
meeting, seeks high-quality, original papers and panels that address the 
theory, design, development, and evaluation of computer systems that support 
the creation, analysis, distribution and, interaction with documents in any 
medium.
Conceptual topics and technologies relevant to the symposium include (but are 
not limited to): 

Document standards, models, representation languages
Document authoring tools and systems
Document presentation (typography, formatting, layout) 
Document synchronization and temporal aspects
Document structure and content analysis
Document categorization and classification
Document internationalization
Integrating documents with other 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 
Adaptive documents
Performance of document systems
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
Applications of constraint systems for document engineering
Document transformation (XSLT)
Document services on wireless networks (WAP)
Document linking standards (XLink, XPath, XPointer)
Document APIs (SAX, DOM)
Important dates
Abstracts due:  May 27, 2003
Full papers due:        June 6, 2003
Acceptance notice by:   July 18, 2003
Revised versions:       September 12, 2003

Organizing committee
Cecile Roisin (General Chair)   Universite Pierre Mendes-France and INRIA       
cecile.roisin-xhhIRkXa/2pvynnTyRI/EA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Christine Vanoirbeek (Program Chair)    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology   
christine.vanoirbeek-p8DiymsW2f8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Submission information
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are 
not being considered in another forum. At least one author is required to 
attend the symposium and present the paper. Submissions must be full papers, 
not extended abstracts.  It is highly recommended authors submit papers in the 
ACM conference proceedings format (maximum of 8 pages).  This will be the final 
format for publication. Papers should be on 8.5 by 11 inch (letter size) paper. 
Submission in other formats will be accepted (font sizes of 11 or 12 point), 
however they can be no longer than twelve (12) pages including figures, tables, 
and references, formatted for 8.5 by 11 inch (letter size) paper with 
reasonable margins (1 inch or 2.5 cm on all sides).  Electronic submission of 
manuscripts (details at www.documentengineering.org) is required unless 
impossible (PDF strongly preferred, Postscript, and ASCII accepted).  
Submissions must include the paper title, abstract of 100-250 words, names !
 
 of authors, their affiliation, email address, and postal address. In addition, 
the author responsible for correspondence should include his/her telephone 
number.

Panel organizers are invited to submit panel proposals.  A panel should bring 
together a variety of expert voices on a topic of considerable interest.  The 
topic may be interesting because it is controversial, because it is of great 
importance to society or to the field, or because it leads us to think about 
future directions for document engineering.  A panel proposal may be up to 
three pages in length.  It should describe the topic of the panel and why it 
will be interesting to the symposium's participants.  It should also list the 
panelists, briefly describing their expertise and should note whether any 
panelist's participation is tentative.  (Note: panelists are expected to 
register for the symposium.)

Program Committee
Apostolos Antonacopoulos, University of Liverpool, UK
Stephen Arnold, Chiron Corporation, USA
David Brailsford, University of Nottingham, UK
Les Carr, University of Southampton, UK
Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University, USA
Jon Herlocker, Oregon State University, USA
Roger Hersch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Janying Hu, Avaya Labs Research, USA
Rolf Ingold, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Peter King, University of Manitoba, Canada
Hakon Lie, Opera Software, Norway
Robert Morris, University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA
Ethan V. Munson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Jocelyne Nanard, Universite de Montpelier, France
Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Markus Noga, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany
Francois Paradis, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Tom Phelps, University of California Berkeley, USA
Maria da Graca Pimentel, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
B. Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Steve Probets, Loughborough University, UK
Vincent Quint, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Samuel Rebelsky, Grinnell College, USA
Cecile Roisin, Universite Pierre Mendes-France and INRIA, France
Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, Netherlands
Greg Shreve, Kent State University
Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, W3C, USA
George Thiruvathukal, Loyola University, USA
Christine Vanoirbeek, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 
Switzerland
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Anne-Marie Vercoustre, CSIRO, Australia
Jean-Yves Vion-Dury, Xerox Research Center Europe, France
Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales, Australia
Derick Wood, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

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