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Please also pass along info \ \ to interested colleagues. / / \ ////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\///\\\\/// CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: EP '96 ============================== This information is from Anne Brueggemenn-Klein (this is a very long message): ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Please post Call for Participation From: Anne Brueggemann-Klein Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:28:44 +0100 Organization: Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen Please find included the updated call for participation for EP96, which includes registration information for the tutorials and authors' names. Apologies if you receive this several times. Please send further enquiries to ep96@xsoft.xerox.com. -- Anne Brueggemann-Klein (EP Program Chair) ================================================================ EP96 FIVE DAYS OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING September 22-26, 1996 EP96 Conference on electronic publishing and document manipulation PODP96 Principles of document processing PODP96 and EP96 comprise a five-day technical gathering focused on recent progress in electronic documents. PODP96, principles of document processing, is a workshop devoted to examining the confluence of document processing and computer science. EP96 continues the tradition of a general conference devoted to electronic documents. Tutorials are offered and may be attended by any participant. PODP96 Workshop on the principles of document processing Monday, September 23 PODP96 will be the third in a series of international workshops organized to promote the modeling of document processing systems using theories and tools from computer science, mathematics, etc. Areas of document processing presented in the first workshop in Washington, DC were document formatting, document conversion, document representation, document recognition, document retrieval, and hypertext, among others. The second workshop in Darmstadt, Germany concentrated on document databases. For more information please contact Prof. Charles Nicholas (nicholas@cs.umbc.edu). EP96 Electronic publishing and document manipulation Tuesday, September 24 - Thursday, September 26 This conference will be the sixth in a series of international conferences organized to promote the exchange of novel ideas in the area of computer document manipulation. The first two conferences in the series, EP86 held in Nottingham, England, and EP88 in Nice, France, concentrated mainly on the specific aspects of electronic document production, from composition to printing. EP90, which took place in Washington, DC, adopted a broader definition of the term Computer Assisted Publication, and accordingly, extended its range of topics to include hypertext and hypermedia systems, document recognition and analysis, and application of database techniques to document handling. EP92, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, confirmed the trend for documents to affect more and more areas in computer science. EP94, held in Darmstadt, Germany, focused explicitly on document representation, transformation, management and interpretation. EP94; EP96 follows this trend. FIVE-DAY OVERVIEW Sunday 22: pm 3:00-6:00 Pre-Conference Registration (at Dinah's Garden Hotel) Monday 23: am 8:30-12:30 EP96 Tutorials 1 and 2/PODP96 pm 2:00-6:00 EP96 Tutorials 1 and 3/PODP96 Tuesday 24: am 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 Session A: Structured Documents I pm 12:00-2:00 Lunch Break 2:00-3:00 Session B: Multimedia and Typecases 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break 3:30-5:00 Session C: Presentation/Representation 6:00-8:00 Reception Wednesday 25: am 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 Session D: Structured Documents II pm 12:00-2:00 Lunch Break 2:00-3:00 Session E: Document Analysis/Compression 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break 3:30-6:00 Exhibitions 6:30-10:00 Banquet Thursday 26 am 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 Session F: Interfaces TUTORIALS Tutorial 1: Information Modeling Approaches to Meet New Publishing Demands (2 parts) -- Lorraine Stanford The advent of new publishing paradigms impacts on how information is created and captured in today's organizations. The need to create information once, and leverage the reuse of it many times grows as stakeholders grapple with rising costs of repurposing and republishing data. Historical approaches to information management and modeling impact on an enterprise's ability to meet these new publishing demands. Traditional requirements of paper publishing are changing to incorporate electronic publishing methods including electronic books and the World Wide Web. Without an ability to repurpose existing information into new uses, these new demands cannot be satisfied economically, efficiently or expediently. As organizations move towards structured information creation and management, choosing which new approach to adopt becomes a critical decision. The use of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) for the Internet specifically, or the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) for electronic documents in general, provides mechanisms for reducing the costs of publishing information in multiple ways. The appropriate role for the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) in the Document Development Life Cycle is as a publishing medium and not as a content capturing medium. It is inflexible to lock one's information into a single presentation medium, which is how the World Wide Web should be considered. This full day tutorial overviews how, when an organization's information is structured using content-oriented markup languages defined using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), the information can be repurposed in different domains as required. From these information structures, presentation-oriented paper deliverables can be created to meet traditional publishing requirements. HTML, a presentation-oriented electronic markup language, can also be one of many outputs for the information, that being appropriate for global access in public or private Webs. The tutorial includes a detailed case history describing the architecture of the technical manual production system of a supplier of military equipment to a Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) Project Office. The Canadian DND CALS Office Engineering and Technical Information Model is the structure of the main store for information used in the production of technical manuals. The nature of the structure of the information model is content-oriented, based on the physical equipment breakdown structure (EBS). The nature of the structure of the technical manuals is presentation-oriented, based on a book paradigm. The tutorial also includes a live example of an SGML Application for publishing in three outputs: one Web style and two paper styles, each meeting a different purpose for the information. Completing the tutorial, pointers to publicly-maintained SGML resource catalogues are reviewed. Lorraine Stanford is a Senior Consultant with Microstar Software Ltd. Her main responsibility is the development and delivery of Microstar's training programme, which includes general SGML courses, as well as instruction in the use of Microstar's software tools and the company's unique, practical approach to implementing the Document Development Life Cycle. Ms. Stanford is also an active member of Microstar's Professional Services Group, which enables her to bring hands-on experience to the classroom. She joined Microstar in early 1994 following 14 years' experience providing Informatics consulting services. Ms. Stanford holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. Tutorial 2: Colour document display and reproduction -- Roger Hersch, Victor Ostromoukov, and Tim Kohler. Color is an integral part of today's electronic documents. However, the problem of faithful color reproduction on a variety of display and printing devices incorporates many aspects, such as device calibration, color halftoning and gamut mapping. The goal of this tutorial is to present the scientific basis of colorimetry, the colorimetric behavior of scanners, displays and printers, categories of halftoning algorithms specifically conceived for color displays as well as current color management standards. 1. The basics of colorimetry From color matching experiments to the CIE-XYZ system Roger D. Hersch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 2. The colorimetric behavior of scanners, displays and printers Roger D. Hersch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 3. Halftoning for color displays (creation of color tables, dithering for display devices, halftoning in color space) V. Ostromoukhov, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 4. The color management standards (ColourSync, ICC) Tim Kohler, Canon Information Systems Tutorial 3: CURRENT STATUS OF DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS -- George Nagy The conversion of documents into electronic form has proved more difficult than anticipated. Document image analysis still accounts for only a small fraction of the rapidly- expanding document imaging market. Nevertheless, the optimism manifested over the last thirty years has not dissipated. There is increased emphasis on large-scale, automated comparative evaluation, using laboriously compiled test databases. The cost of generating these databases has stimulated new research on synthetic noise models. Driven partly by document distribution on CD-ROM and via the World Wide Web, there is more interest in the preservation of layout and format attributes to increase searchability and legibility (sometimes called "page reconstruction") rather than just text/non-text separation. At the same time, the requirements of downstream software, such as word processing, information retrieval and computer-aided design applications, favor turning the results of the analysis and recognition into some standard computer format. The realization that accurate document image analysis requires fairly specific pre-stored information has resulted in the investigation of new data structures for knowledge bases and for the representation of the results of partial analysis. Progress is reported on documents - primarily office forms - containing a mix of handprinted, handwritten and printed material, and research on stylus-based data entry is spurred by the popularity of notepad computers. Other active topics include image, text-image, and text compression; map and line-drawing conversion; half-tone and color processing; and text-entry for digital libraries. EP96 The Conference Organization Program committee chair: Anne Bru"ggemann-Klein (Technische Universita"t Mu"nchen, Germany) Conference chair: Allen L. Brown, Jr. (Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, USA) Program committee: Jacques Andre' INRIA/IRISA, Rennes, France Charles Bigelow Stanford University, USA David F. Brailsford University of Nottingham, UK Allen L. Brown, Jr. Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, USA Heather Brown University of Kent, Canterbuty, UK Anne Bru"ggemann-Klein Technische Universita"t Munchen, Germany Giovanni Coray Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Anton Eliens Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands An Feng Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, USA Hans-Peter Frei UBILAB, Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich Richard Furuta Texas A&M University, USA Roger D. Hersch Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Christoph Hu"ser GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany Rolf Ingold University of Fribourg, Switzerland Brian Kernighan AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA Peter King University of Manitoba, Canada Dario Lucarella CRA-ENEL, Milan, Italy Pierre MacKay University Washington, USA Robert A. Morris University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Makoto Murata Fuji Xerox Information Systems, Kawasaki, Japan Marc Nanard CRIM, Montpellier, France Vincent Quint INRIA/IMAG, Grenoble, France Richard Rubinstein Sun Microsystems, USA Christine Vanoirbeek Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Hans van Vliet Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Wang Xuan Peking University, Beijing, China EP96 PROGRAM Tuesday 24: am 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Hal R. Varian (Professor and Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley) 10:30-12:00 Session A: Structured Documents I Web Applications and SGML by JACCO VAN OSSENBRUGGEN, ANTON ELIE"NS AND BASTIAAN SCHO"NHAGE SGML/HyTime Repositories and the Object Paradigm by PATRICIA FRANCOIS, PHILIPPE FUTTERSACK AND CHRISTOPHE ESPERT Typographic Sheets and Structured Documents by HE'LE`NE RICHY AND JACQUES ANDRE' pm 2:00-3:00 Session B: Multimedia and Typecases Modelling Multimedia Documents by PETER R. KING The Traditional Arabic Typecase Extended to the Unicode Set of Glyphs by YANNIS HARALAMBOUS 3:30-5:00 Session C: Presentation and Representation A New Presentation Language for Structured Documents by ETHAN V. MUNSON Pagination Reconsidered by ANNE BRU"GGEMANN-KLEIN, ROLF KLEIN AND STEFAN WOHFEIL Towards Structured, Block-Based PDF by PHILIP N. SMITH AND DAVID F. BRAILSFORD Wednesday 25: am 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Peter Hibbard (Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems, Inc.) 10:30-12:00 Session D: Structured Documents II XTABLE---A Tabular Editor and Formatter by XINXIN WANG AND DERICK WOOD Filtering Structured Documents in the SYNDOC Environment by E. KUIKKA AND A. SALMINEN Automatic Generation of SGML Content Models by HELENA AHONEN pm 2:00-3:00 Session E: Document Analysis and Compression Document Analysis of PDF Files: Methods, Results and Implications by WILLIAM S. LOVEGROVE AND DAVID F. BRAILSFORD A Pattern-Based Lossy Compression Scheme for Document Images by QIN ZHANG AND JOHN M. DANSKIN 3:30-6:00 Exhibitions Thursday 26 am 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Bryan L. Bell (Strategic Technologist, Frank ussell Company) 10:30-12:00 Session F: Interfaces Using Documents as Interfaces to Information Systems by VIJAY KUMAR, RICHARD FURUTA AND ROBERT B. ALLEN Retrieval from Facet Spaces by ROBERT B. ALLEN The Stick-e Document: A Framework for Creating Context-Aware Applications by P. J. BROWN General Information Proceedings of the EP96 conference will be published by Wiley as a special issue of the journal EP-ODD and will be available in preprint form at the conference and in final form subsequently. The PODP96 workshop proceedings will be given to each participant at the beginning of the workshop. Location: The conference will be held principally on the campus of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in Palo Alto, California. Palo Alto is south of the San Francisco International Airport and can be reached in approximately thirty minutes by automobile or any of several shuttle bus services available at the airport. Accommodation: Rooms have been reserved at an attractive rate for conference attendees at Dinah's Garden Hotel in Palo Alto. The rooms range in price from $100-$120 per night of stay. That rate will be provided to conference attendees beginning the night of September 21 and extending through the night of September 28. Dinah's is approximately three kilometers from the conference site. While it is a pleasant forty-minute walk from the Dinah's to PARC, a shuttle bus service will be provided for the convenience of the conference attendees. To reserve accommodations at Dinah's, attendees should contact: Mr. Bill Lyons Director of Sales Dinah's Garden Hotel 4261 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA +1 415 493-2844 (tel) +1 415 856-8904(fax) +1 415 856-4713 (fax) Sponsors: The conference is sponsored by the Xerox Corporation, Adobe Systems, Inc., the School of Information Management and Systems of the University of California at Berkeley, and INRIA. Insurance: The organizers cannot be held liable to conference participants for injury, damage or loss of their personal property. It is suggested that participants make their own insurance arrangements. English: English is the official language of the conference, tutorials and workshop. Secretarial support including fax and phone will be available during the whole conference period. Registration: Please make your (binding) conference reservation by sending the completed registration form with payment to the conference secretariat. Confirmation will be given after receipt of the registration form. For a limited number of students conference attendance at a reduced fee is possible. Please send a copy of your student card. Fees for the conferences, workshops and tutorials include proceedings, the reception, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet dinner. Payment: Payment should be made in United States dollars payable to the Xerox Corporation by check. Credit cards (Visa and Mastercharge) are accepted. Cancellation: Fees will be returned in full for any written cancellation postmarked before September 1, 1996. No refunds will be made after this date. Registration forms should be sent to: EP96 Conference Secretariat Mrs. P.A. Gretz Xerox Corporation 3400 Hillview Avenue PAHV-127 Palo Alto, California 94304 USA fax: +1 415 813-7394 e-mail: ep96@xsoft.xerox.com EP96 Registration Form NAME: (please write last name first) ______________________________ AFFILIATION: ______________________________________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS: ___________________________________________________ STREET ADDRESS: ___________________________________________________ TOWN/POSTAL CODE: ________________________ COUNTRY: ______________ TELEPHONE: __________________________ FAX: _______________________ FEES* Conference fees (excluding hotel room): before September 1 After September 1 _______ $350 _______ $425 (student price) _______ $200 _______ $225 Tutorial fees (excluding hotel room): before September 1 After September 1 Tutoral 1: _______ $400 _______ $500 (student) _______ $100 _______ $130 Tutoral 2: _______ $200 _______ $250 (student) _______ $50 _______ $65 Tutoral 3: _______ $200 _______ $250 (student) _______ $50 _______ $65 Attendees spouses and companions are welcome to attend the banquet event: _______ $30 Total amount due: _______ $ ********************************************************************** I am paying by: _____check _____VISA _____Mastercharge credit card number_____________________________ exp. date_____________ Total amount due: ____________________________________________________ Date: ________________________________________________________________ Signature: ___________________________________________________________ *An attendee who wishes to pay by credit card may return a completed and signed copy of the above registration form to the secretariat via fax or post. Registration forms should be sent to: EP96 Conference Secretariat Mrs. P.A. Gretz Xerox Corporation 3400 Hillview Avenue PAHV-127 Palo Alto, California 94304 USA Tel +1 415 813-7003 fax +1 415 813-7308 e-mail ep96@xsoft.xerox.com ////\\\\////\\\\///\\\///\\\\////\\\\///\\\\///\\\\///\ \ / / SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER \ \ Sue Martin-Gamble, Interleaf / \ 4999 Pearl East Circle, Ste 100 \ / Boulder, Colorado 80301 / \ VOX 303/449-5032 x 109 \ / FAX 303/449-3246 / / / ////\/\/\/\/\//////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\//\\\\\/ **For article submission, email sue@boulder.ileaf.com **