Early registration deadline extended to October 8, 2004

Computer-based systems for creating, distributing, and analyzing documents are one of the centerpieces of the new "Information Society." 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. Furthermore, document technologies like XML are having a profound impact on data modeling in general because of the way they bridge and integrate a variety of paradigms (database, object-oriented, and structured document).

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.

Organizing Committee

Keynote Speech

Kristoffer H. Rose, Ph.D., IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, "The XML World View"