The 17th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2017) seeks original research papers that focus on the design, implementation, development, management, use and evaluation of advanced systems where document and document collections play a key role. DocEng emphasizes innovative approaches to document engineering technology, use of documents and document collections in real world applications, novel principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, maintain, share, and productively use these. In particular, the 17th ACM Symposium of Document Engineering (DocEng 2017) seeks works pertaining to historical documents encouraging the submission of papers related, but not limited to, archives, restoration, digitisation and processing of large volumes of documents. You are invited to submit original papers to the 17th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2017), to be held at University of Malta, Valletta Campus, Valletta, Malta. Attendees at this international forum have interests that span all aspects of document engineering and applications.
Call for Papers
Download the printable version of the call for papers and the DocEng 2017 poster.

Evaluation Criteria
The program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission as well as its general accessibility to the DocEng audience. Papers will be judged on significance, originality, and clarity. The paper must be organized so that it is easily understood by an audience with varied expertise. The paper should clearly identify what has been accomplished, why it is significant, and how it relates to previous work.

Submissions
Full papers: describing complete works of research (up to 10 pages).
Short papers: describing smaller complete works of research, novel challenges or visions (up to 4 pages).
Application notes/demos: describing systems or tools (up to 4 pages).
Workshop/tutorial proposals: tutorials are by a domain expert and introduce a current topic of interest to symposium attendees while workshops provide an informal setting in which to develop vision and exchange ideas in a specialised field of interest.

Symposium Format
DocEng is a single-track conference attended by a community of academic and industrial researchers. It will be preceded by one day of workshops and tutorials.

Authors Take Note
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)
DocEng is sponsored by ACM by means of the ACM SIGWEB Special Interest Group. Proceedings are available through the ACM Digital Library. Each DocEng paper must have at least one non-student registration for it to be presented at DocEng 2017 and be published in the DocEng 2017 Proceedings. Each workshop paper must have at least one workshop registration (of either category) to be presented at the workshop.

Symposium Organisation
General chair: Kenneth P. Camilleri
Program chair: Alexandra Bonnici
Program co-chair: Stefania Cristina
Local chair: Carl Azzopardi
Important Dates
All deadlines are strict at 11:59pm AOE (Anywhere On Earth).
Full papers: Describing complete works of research (up to 10 pages)
Abstracts due March 27, 2017
Manuscripts due April 3, 2017
Author notification May 22, 2017
Short papers: Describing smaller complete works of research, novel challenges or visions (up to 4 pages)
Manuscripts due May 22, 2017
Author notification July 1, 2017
Application notes/demos: Describing systems or tools (up to 4 pages)
Manuscripts due May 22, 2017
Author notification July 1, 2017
Workshop/tutorial proposals: Tutorials are by a domain expert and introduce a current topic of interest to symposium attendees
while workshops provide an informal setting in which to develop vision and exchange ideas in a specialised field of interest
Proposals due April 3, 2017
Author notification April 21, 2017
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Manuscripts due July 17, 2017