Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2015 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering -- DocEng'15. This year's symposium both continues and innovates in its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of document engineering. The mission of the symposium is to share significant results, to evaluate novel approaches and models, and to identify promising directions for future research and development. DocEng gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of document engineering. Document engineering is a rapidly developing field that encompasses both traditional topics and also new ideas and challenges related to new technologies and to changes in the ways in which information is created, managed, and disseminated. This year we issued a new call for papers centered on new hot topics around the notion of document that has evolved to encompass a broader vision of the field. We therefore took pains to include new program committee members to supplement the overall expertise around these topics. Our call for papers attracted submissions from 25 countries (Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Qatar, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America). All papers were carefully reviewed by a minimum of three program committee members. The program committee accepted 11 of 31 reviewed full paper submissions (35%) and 18 of 51 reviewed short paper submissions (35%) for oral presentations, for a combined acceptance rate of 35%. A further 10 short paper submissions were accepted for poster presentations. This year's program includes two poster sessions during which attendees will be given the opportunity to interact with authors of short papers accepted for poster presentation. The most covered topics this year are analysis, layout, authoring, querying, transformation, validation, management and semantics of documents, as well as related algorithms. We are happy to feature two keynote talks: Documents as Data, Data as Documents: what we learned about Semi-Structured Information for our Open World of Cloud & Devices, Jean Paoli (who is currently President at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.) The Venice Time Machine, Frederic Kaplan (who is currently professor at EPFL)