hb@ukc.UUCP (H.Brown) (03/08/85)
A conference on Text Processing and Document Manipulation is to be held in Nottingham, England, in April 1986. A copy of the Call for Papers is given below. It is hoped that the registration fee for this 3-day conference will be around 200 pounds (including accommodation, meals, and a copy of the proceedings). There will be reduced fees for speakers, so now is your chance to start composing that excellent paper! -------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Text Processing and Document Manipulation Call for Papers An international conference on `Text Processing and Document Manipulation' will be held at the University of Nottingham, England, on April 14-16, 1986. The conference is being organized by the Electronic Publishing Specialist Group of the British Computer Society in association with a number of sponsors. It is intended primarily for people actively working in the field, but will also provide a number of state-of-the-art surveys for those who wish to find out what is available. An associated exhibition will provide an opportunity for participants to see systems in action. The conference will cover all aspects of computer document preparation, text processing, and printing. It will include considerations of document design, digital typography, authoring systems, videotex, and electronic publishing. Papers -- which should either present original research work or give a comprehensive survey of a particular area -- are invited on any topic related to document processing, including the following: * Markup languages * Document structures * Document compilers or * The creation, retrieval, and interactive document editors delivery of documents * The integration of text, * Electronic publishing -- graphics, and images applications and techniques * End-user interfaces * Document and type design * Mathematical text * Structured editors Three copies of papers should be submitted to the Program Committee Chairman (Mrs. Heather Brown, Computing Laboratory, The University, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, England) not later than 1 September, 1985. All papers will be read by two members of the Program Committee and authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 November, 1985. Final copies of accepted papers will be due by 15 January, 1986. The Conference Proceedings will be published by the Cambridge University Press, and will be available at the Conference. Program Committee Dr. Jacques Andre, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France Dr. Patrick Baudelaire, TANGRAM, Paris, France Dr. David Brailsford, University of Nottingham, England (Local Organizer) Mrs. Heather Brown, University of Kent, England (Chairman) Mr. R. W. Davy, Chelgraph, Cheltenham, England Dr. James Gosling, Sun Microsystems, California, USA Dr. P. G. Hibbard, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Dr. Brian W. Kernighan, AT&T Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA Dr. Peter R. King, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Dr. Pierre MacKay, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Professor J. Nievergelt, Institut fur Informatik, Zurich, Switzerland Professor Alan C. Shaw, University of Washington, Seattl , USA Dr. J. C. van Vliet, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Proceedings Editor) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To be placed on the mailing list for this conference, please give the indicated below and send to `BISL Conference Department (EP86), 13 Mansfield Street, London W1M 0BP, England'. Name ________________________________ I am interested in: Address _____________________________ Submitting a paper ______________________________________ Attending the conference ______________________________________ Exhibiting ______________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------