furuta@crayola.cs.umd.edu (Richard Furuta) (10/29/89)
Announcement and Call for Papers Electronic Publishing '90 International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography September 18-20, 1990 U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD Introduction and history: ------------------------- EP90, an international conference on electronic publishing, document manipulation, and typography, will be held in mid-September, 1990, in the Washington, DC area in Gaithersburg, MD on the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly the National Bureau of Standards). An associated exhibition will provide an opportunity for participants to see commercial and research systems in action. EP90, ``Electronic Publishing '90,'' will be the third in a series of international conferences established to bring together researchers in all areas of electronic publishing systems. EP86, held in Nottingham, England, was sponsored by the British Computer Society. EP88, held in Nice, France, was sponsored by INRIA. The proceedings of papers presented at the earlier sessions were published by Cambridge University Press and have received wide dissemination. The proceedings of EP90 will also be published in book form and will be available at the conference. Broad topic list: ----------------- EP90 will adopt a broad definition of ``electronic publishing.'' Electronic publishing will be taken to encompass all aspects of computer-assisted preparation, presentation, transmittal, storage, and retrieval of documents. The scope of the conference also includes the design of the related computer systems, the design of their components, and the theory that underlies such systems. Both linear and non-linear documents are appropriate subjects for discussion. While the conference will be principally oriented to new ideas and techniques, careful presentation of important earlier results inadequately described in the open literature is also appropriate. Papers should present previously unpublished original research results and should be supported by experience. Specific topic list: -------------------- - Document preparation systems: design, concepts, and experience. - Document component identification and manipulation. - Hypertext systems, particularly those that provide additional insights on the characteristics of these systems. - Font design and use: design and evaluation of computer-based tools, techniques and goals, visual issues. - Representations specialized for electronic display: fonts, presentations, etc. - Graphics and document illustration. - Page description languages. - Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of document preparation systems. - Critical analyses of proposed and established international standards. Experience with standards. - Managing the complexities introduced by scale. Scaling up to large documents. - Hardware-environment issues: Printers, displays, networks, workstations. - Distributed document manipulation systems (in the sense of distributed processing). - Specialized documents (e.g., catalogs, programs, manuals, and proposals), with insight into how they differ from generic documents. - Text and document recognition (recognition of physical and/or logical structure from a printed document). - Heterogeneous target reader populations (e.g., multi-lingual). - Application of database technology to document preparation. - Integration of documentation tools with other tools, e.g., CASE, CAD-CAM. Call for papers: ---------------- We welcome papers on all aspects of electronic publishing. Papers should be limited to the equivalent of ten pages of text, 10 point on 12. Only full papers can be considered. Please send seven copies of your paper to the conference address below. Important dates: ---------------- January 31, 1990: full papers due April 1, 1990: acceptance notification to authors May 15, 1990: final version of paper due Tuesday, September 18, 1990--Thursday, September 20, 1990: EP90 Call for exhibitors: -------------------- If you are interested in participating in the associated exhibition, please write for more detailed guidelines. The exhibit will encompass both research and commercial systems. For conference information: ------------------------ Lawrence A. Welsch/EP90 Building 225, Room B252 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899 U.S.A. Telephone: (301) 975-3345 (8:30--5:00 Eastern Time) Electronic mail: ep90@asl.ncsl.nist.gov FAX: (301) 590-0932 Program Committee: ------------------ Peter King (Conference Chair) University of Manitoba Canada Richard Furuta (Program Chair) University of Maryland USA Debra Adams (Exhibition Chair) Xerox Palo Alto Research Center USA Larry Welsch (Local Arrangements and Publicity Chair) National Institute of Standards and Technology USA Jacques Andr\'e INRIA/IRISA--Rennes France Patrick Baudelaire Digital Paris Research Laboratory France Richard J. Beach Xerox Palo Alto Research Center USA Charles Bigelow Stanford University USA David F. Brailsford University of Nottingham UK Heather Brown University of Kent at Canterbury UK Donald D. Chamberlin IBM Almaden Research Center USA Giovanni Coray \'Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne Switzerland R. W. Davy Chelgraph Limited UK Irene Greif Lotus Development Corporation USA Vania Joloboff Open Software Foundation USA Brian Kernighan AT&T Bell Laboratories USA Dario Lucarella Universita degli Studi di Milano Italy Pierre MacKay University of Washington USA Norman Meyrowitz Brown University USA Robert A. Morris Interleaf and UMASS/Boston USA Jurg Nievergelt ETH, Zurich Switzerland Vincent Quint INRIA/IMAG France Brian Reid DEC Western Research Laboratory USA Richard Rubinstein Digital Equipment Corporation USA Alan Shaw University of Washington USA Andries van Dam Brown University USA Hans van Vliet Free University, Amsterdam The Netherlands Jan Walker Digital Equipment Corporation USA Sponsor information: -------------------- Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology Co-sponsors: ACM (pending) EPSIG/American Association of Publishers University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Xerox PARC In cooperation with IEEE Computer Society/Technical Committee on Office Automation Acknowledgements: TeX Users Group Xerox PARC Graphics -- Good health is merely the slowest rate at which one can die.