The Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng '02) is an annual academic conference devoted to the dissemination of research on document engineering. DocEng '02 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 DocEng '02, hold to an expansive notion of documents. A document is a representation of information designed for reading by, or played-back to, 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
• Applications of constraints to document engineering
• Document transformation (XSLT)
• Document services on wireless networks (WAP)
• Document linking standards (XLink, XPath, XPointer)
• Document APIs (SAX, DOM)

Submission information top

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 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.

See the submission section for complete information.

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: as this is an academic meeting, panelists are expected to register for the symposium.)

Important dates EXTENDED top

Abstracts due:	June 10, 2002
Full papers due:	June 10, 2002
Acceptance notice by:	July 26, 2002
Revised versions:	August 30, 2002
DocEng 2002:	November 8-9, 2002

in conjunction with

ACM CIKM 2002

in cooperation with

ACM SIGWEB

and

ACM SIGCHI