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E P'9 8 P R O G R A M M E
Saint-Malo, 1-3 April, 1998

09.00 - 10.30

For information: RIDT session

10.00 - 10.50

Coffee-break and EP'98 registration

10.50 - 11.00

Welcome

Opening session (with RIDT): Legibility and typography

11.00 - 11.20

Keynote talk: The Web accessibility Intiative
Daniel Dardailler (WAI Project Manager, W3C Consortium)

11.20 - 12.00

Keynote talk: Two Decades of Typographic Research at URW: a Retrospective
Peter Karow (Hamburg, Germany)

12.00 - 12.30

Legibility of Condensed Perceptually-Tuned Grayscale Fonts
R.A. Morris, R.D. Hersch and A. Coimbra
University of Massachussets (USA) and École Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (Switzerland)

12.30 - 13.00

Exploring the Effect of Layout on Reading from Screen
Mary C. Dyson and Gary J. Kipping
University of Reading (UK)

Wednesday 1 April 1998, afternoon / Mercredi 1^er avril, après-midi

Paper session (with RIDT): Fonts and design

14.45 - 15.15

Internationalized Text Manipulation Covering Perso-Arabic Enhanced for Mongolian Related Scripts
Tomoko I. Kataoka, Yutaka Kataoka, Kazutomo Uezono and Hiroyoshi Ohara
Waseda University (Japan)

15.15-15.45

Une Bibliothèque Informatique pour la Notation Musicale Baroque
Nabil Bouzaiene, Loïc Le Gall and Émmanuel Saint-James
University of Paris and École Supérieure Estienne (France)

For information: RIDT finishes at 15.45

15.45 - 16-15: Tea-break

Paper session: Page styles and structures

16.15 - 16.45

Document Style Design by Direct Manipulation
Hélène Richy
CNRS/Irisa-Rennes (France)


16.45 - 17.15

A DTD Extension for Document Structure Recognition
Rolf Brugger, Frederic Bapst and Rolf Ingold
University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

17.15 - 18.00: The initially scheduled poster session is cancelled.

18.00: COCKTAIL RECEPTION

Paper session: Time and Multimedia

09.00 - 09.30

Synchronization in Multimedia documents
Peter King, Helen Cameron, Howard Bowman and Simon Thompson
University of Manitoba (Canada) and University of Kent (UK)


09.30 - 10.00

Édition et Visualisation Interactive de Documents Multimedia
Muriel Jourdan, Cécile Roisin and Laurent Tardif
INRIA-Grenoble (France)


10.00 - 10.30

Memory Scalability in Constraint-Based Multimedia Style Sheet Systems
Terry Cumaranatunge and Ethan V. Munson
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA)

10.30 - 11.00: Coffee-Break

Paper session: Electronic and Paper Documents

11.00 - 12.00

Keynote talk: Intelligent paper
(an invited talk from the Xerox Research Centre at Grenoble about an exciting new technology from Xerox that has significant implications for document processing)
Marc Dymetman and Max Copperman
Xerox Research Centre Europe


12.00 - 12.30

Active Alice: Using Real Paper to Interact with Electronic Text
Heather Brown, Robert Harding, Steve Lay, Peter Robinson, Dan Sheppard and Richard Watts
University of Kent and University of Cambridge (UK)


12.30 - 13.00

Autotag: A Tool for Creating Structured Document Collections from Printed Materials
Kazem Taghva, Allen Condit and Julie Borsack
University of Nevada (USA)

13.00 - 14.45: Lunch

Thursday 2 April 1998, afternoon / Jeudi 2 avril, après-midi

Paper session: Document engineering

14.45 - 15.15

Hyperbook Data Modeling
Peter Fröhlich, Nicola Henze and Wolfgang Nejdl
University of Hannover (Germany)


15.15 - 15.45

A Plug-in Architecture for Cross-Media Formatters
Thomas Bretthauer, Anne Bruggemann-Klein, Stefan Hermann and Rolf Klein
Technische Universität München and Fern Universität Hagen (Germany)

15.45 - 16.15: Tea-break

Paper session: Documents and Linguistics

16.15 - 16.45

The Effects of Textual Aesthetics on Information Retrieval'
Terence A. Brooks
University of Washington (USA)


16.45 - 17.15

The Use of Automatic Alignment on Structured Multilingual Documents
A. Ballim, G. Coray, A. Linden and C. Vanoirbeek
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)

17.15 - 18.00: The initially scheduled poster session is cancelled.

Paper session: Document reuse

09.00 - 09.30

Design and Implementation of a Document Assembly Workbench
Pekka Kilpelainen, Helena Ahonen, Barbara Heikkinen, Oskari Heinonen, Jani Jaakkola and Greger Linden
University of Helsinki (Finland)


09.30 - 10.00

A Virtual Document Interpreter for Reuse of Information
François Paradis, Anne-Marie Vercoustre and Brendan Hills
CSIRO (Australia) and INRIA (France)


10.00 - 10.30

Reuse of Linked Documents through Virtual Document Prescriptions
Anne-Marie Vercoustre and François Paradis
INRIA (France) and CSIRO (Australia)

10.30 - 11.00: Coffee-break

11.00 - 12.00

Keynote talk: Content Management in a Professionnal Application : Time-sensitive Publishing of Financial Analysis Reports on Multiple Media
François Chahuneau (AIS Berger-Levrault, Paris)

Paper session: Hypertext and the Web

12.00 - 12.30
Measuring Structural Similarity Among Web Documents: Preliminary Results
Isabel F. Cruz, Slava Borisov, Michael A. Marks, and Timothy R. Webb
Worcester Polytechnic Institute and GromCo, Inc (USA)

12.30 - 13.00
A Tool for Maintaining Multi-variant Hypertext Documents
Shueh-Cheng Hu, Richard Furuta and S. Augustine Su
Texas A&M University (USA)

13.00 - 14.30: Lunch

Friday 3 April 1998, afternoon / Vendredi 3 avril, après-midi

Paper session: Hypertext creation and management

14.30 - 15.00

Projet Hypermap : Pour un Environnement Complet de Génération Automatique d'Hypertexte
Habib Rhissassi and Alain Lelu
University of Paris (France)


15.00 - 15.30

Dynamic Link Inclusion in Online PDF Journals
Steve Probets, David F. Brailsford, Les Carr and Wendy Hall
Electronic Publishing Solutions, University of Nottingham and University of Southampton (UK)


15.30 - 16.00

Adding Semantics to SGML Databases
Subhasish Mazumdar, Weifeng Bao, Zhenggang Yuan and Jonathan Price
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (USA)

16.00: Finish and refreshment / Cloture et raffraichissements