Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Document engineering

Abstract

The 2003 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2003), is the third in a series of international conferences dedicated to research addressing the theory, design, development, and evaluation of computer systems that support the creation, analysis, distribution, and interaction with documents in any medium.Although the series began three years ago, it takes its roots from the tradition of several conferences, including the long series of biennial Electronic Publishing (EP) conferences and Principles of Document Processing workshops, the 2000 Digital Documents and Electronic Publishing conference, the 1988 ACM Conference on Documents Processing Systems, and the 1981 ACM Symposium on Text Manipulation.All those conferences contributed to the very notion of document, to be taken in the wide sense of printable and interactively "tangible" composite multimedia information. The DocEng symposium entered the third millennium encompassing a new vision of documents; they are currently at the heart 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.Research in the area is going on both in academic institutions and industrial laboratories. As an ultimate consequence, 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 structu…