Symposium on Document Engineering November 9 10, 2001 Doubletree Hotel Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Document engineering is an emerging discipline within computer science that investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. Document engineering is concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. An analogy to software engineering both apt and deliberate, but document engineering looks at computer systems for documents in general. Because documents are so pervasive in modern life, it might seem dif cult to put de ne them meaningfully. A document is a representation of information that is designed to be read or played back by a person. It may be presented on paper, on a screen, or played through a speaker or some other output device and its underlying representation may be in any form and include data from any medium. A document may be stored in nal presentation form or it may be generated on-the- y, undergoing substantial transformations in the process. A document may include extensive hyperlinks and be part of a large web of information. Furthermore, apparently independent documents may be composed, so that a web of information may itself
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