From: furuta@cs.umd.edu (Richard Furuta)
Subject: CFP: Special issue of EP-odd on Active Documents
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:00:21 GMT
Expires: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 08:00:00 GMT


                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                              SPECIAL ISSUE OF
          ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING: ORIGINATION DISSEMINATION AND DESIGN
                                     ON
                              ACTIVE DOCUMENTS


"Electronic Publishing:  Origination, Dissemination and Design"
("EP-odd") is pleased to announce a special issue on the topic of
Active Documents, planned to appear in 1993.

The presentation and contents of an active document is dependent on
computation.  An active document can be intended for interactive
presentation or for paper presentation.  A paper-based active document's
content might be generated by execution of an algorithm when the
document is assembled.  The organization of an interactive active
document might depend on characteristics of the computer environment in
which it is displayed.  In either case, the key characteristics are that
the document has been designed by an author with a particular purpose in
mind and that the document's content and/or structure responds to
aspects of the surrounding world's state.

We are interested in papers on all aspects of active documents.  As a
very general starting point, some possible topics include system design,
underlying support issues, evaluation, language issues (especially the
representation of the activity within the system), and cognitive issues.

As a rough guideline, papers should be in the range of 10 to 20 pages in
length, although longer and shorter papers are appropriate if dictated
by the subject matter.  All papers will be refereed using the normal
EP-odd refereeing process.  Manuscripts must be submitted in final form
as the limited time available for reviewing the contributions to the
special issue will not permit very many passes through the editing
cycle.  Authors will be asked to follow the EP-odd author guidelines,
(four copies of the manuscript are requested), and they are asked to
include a copy of the EP-odd copyright release form with their
submission. Copies of the guidelines and copyright release form may be
found in each issue of EP-odd or may be obtained by mail from the guest
editor (address below).

Because space is limited in the special issue, it may not be possible to
publish all deserving papers.  Unless authors request otherwise, such
deserving papers will be referred to the normal EP-odd editorial process
and will be considered for publication in a subsequent issue.

This issue will be coordinated by Vincent Quint, member of the editorial
board of EP-odd. He may be contacted at:

    Vincent Quint
    INRIA/IMAG
    2, rue de Vignate
    F-38610 Gieres
    France
        e-mail: quint@imag.fr
        Telephone: +33 76 63 48 31
        Fax: +33 76 54 76 15

In order to receive maximum consideration, papers should be received by

    APRIL 1, 1993

Papers received after this date will be accepted, but because of
schedule constraints may not be able to appear in the special issue.
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