Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (2016)

It is both an honor and a pleasure to hold the 16th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, DocEng 2016, at the TU Wien, Austria, organized by the Computer Vision Lab (CVL). DocEng is the leading international ACM symposium for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences in the domain of document engineering. It aims at bringing together researchers in the fields of computer vision, multimedia technologies, image processing, image analysis, information and systems analysis, electronic publishing, business process analysis, and business informatics. The symposium is intended as convention of renowned experts in all areas of document engineering of both academia and industry to present and discuss recent progress and advances in the fields of: document models and structures, document representation and standards, distributed documents, collaborative documents and the sharing economy, document internationalization, multilingual representations, document authoring tools and systems, document presentation (typography, formatting, layout), automatically generated documents, content customization, variable printing, documents for mobile devices, web document processing and interaction, document repositories, massive collections of documents, digital libraries and archives, secure document workflows, collaborative authoring and editing, culture-dependent layouts, and many more. Our call for papers attracted submissions from 27 countries (Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macao, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam). All papers were carefully reviewed by a minimum of three Program Committee members, upon which decisions for acceptance were based on correctness, presentation, technical depth, scientific significance and originality. The Program Committee accepted 11 of 35 reviewed full paper submissions (31%) and 12 of 36 reviewed short paper submissions (33%) for oral presentation, for a combined acceptance rate of 32%. A further 10 short paper submissions were accepted for poster presentation. This year's program includes a Doctoral Consortium as a special session for the fourth time, where doctoral students in their second year or later present their dissertation project and get feedback from a panel of senior researchers as well as from the general audience. This session, called [email protected], is intended to provide students with constructive criticism and helps them in formulating their research question, deciding about methods and approaches to use, and creating further ideas. This is one of the key ways in which we support the future generation of researchers in Document Engineering. A true highlight of this year's DocEng are the valuable and insightful keynote talks: Design Is Not What You Think It Is, Peter Bi?ak, founder of the Typotheque design studio and Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, NetherlandsResearch Infrastructures, or How Document Engineering, Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities Can Go Together, Günter Mühlberger, from the University of Innsbruck, Austria The Proceedings of DocEng 2016 contain the papers in the same order as they were presented at the conference, grouped by their corresponding thematic session. In putting these Proceedings together, many people played a significant role which we would like to acknowledge: First of all, our thanks are due to the authors who contributed their work to the symposium. Secondly, we are grateful for the dedicated work of the 60 members of the Program Committee for their effort in evaluating the submitted papers and in providing the necessary decision support information and the valuable feedback for the authors. We also thank Sonja Schimmler for organizing the first day with two tutorials and two workshops, Cerstin Mahlow for coordinating [email protected], Charles Nicholas for chairing the Birds of a Feather session, and Ethan Munson for his support regarding the Student Travel Awards. We also thank the Steering Committee and in particular Steven Simske for their support.