ylkingsbury@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Yvonne Kingsbury) (02/02/90)
The University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue
Waterloo, Ontario
The Institute for Computer Research (ICR)
Presents a Colloquium on
An Approach to the Solution of the Data Translation Problem
by Dr. Sandy Mamrak
of Dept. of Computer Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Wednesday, February 7, 1990
3:30 p.m.
William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, Room 1302
ABSTRACT
There is a need for widespread exchange of electronic documents in
domains as diverse as book publishing, automated offices, factories
and research laboratories. The variety of data representations, and
the subsequent need for data translation, is a major obstacle to this
exchange. This talk describes a comprehensive data translation system
with the following characteristics: (1) it is derived from a formal
model of the translation task; (2) it supports the building of
translation tools; (3) it supports the use of translation tools; and
(4) it is accessible to its targeted end-users. A software
architecture to achieve the translation capability is fully
implemented. Translators have been generated using the architecture,
both by the original software developers and by industrial associates
who have installed the architecture at their own sites.
Everyone is welcome. Refreshments served.