This symposium is a new academic conference focused on the theory, design, development and evaluation of computer systems that support the creation, analysis, or distribution of documents in any medium. The organizers of this conference believe that document engineering is emerging as an important domain in computer science and that the time is right for a new conference that will bring together researchers from around the globe who are interested in document technology and document systems. Included below is the text of the Symposium's Call for Papers, which further describes its scope and motivation.
Documents are no longer static, physical entities.
New document technology allows us to create globally interconnected systems that store information drawn from many media and deliver that information as active documents that adapt to the needs of their users. Document engineering is an emerging discipline within computer science that investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. Like software engineering, document engineering is concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. SDE '01 seeks high-quality, original papers and panels that address the theory, design, development and evaluation of computer systems that support the creation, analysis, or distribution of documents in any medium. We, the organizers of SDE '01, hold to an expansive notion of documents.