Short papers

We thank the authors of the 47 short papers submitted to DocEng'08. Given the high standard of the submissions, a number of very good papers could not be accommodated within the overall constraints of the program. The 19 short paper accepted are listed bellow.

• A Content-based Approach for Document Representation and Retrieval - Antonio Rinaldi
• A Visual Approach for Modeling Spatiotemporal Relations - Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães, Carlos Soares Neto, Luiz Fernando Soares
• An Export Architecture for a Multimedia Authoring Environment - Mikáč Jan, Cécile Roisin, Bao Le Duc
• An Optical Character Recognition Approach to Qualifying Thresholding Algorithms - Margaret Sturgill, Steven Simske
• Constructing a Know-How Repository of Advices and Warnings from Procedural Texts - Lionel Fontan, Saint-Dizier Patrick
• Document Logs: A distributed approach to metadata for better security and flexibility - Michael Gormish, Greg Wolff, Kurt Piersol
• End-user editing of interactive multimedia documents - Maria da Graca Pimentel, Renan Cattelan, Erick Melo, Cesar Teixeira
• Expressive, Efficient, Embedded, and Component-based XML-Java Data Binding Framework - Zachary Toups, Andruid Kerne, Blake Dworaczyk, and Madhur Khandelwal
• Fast Identification of Visual Documents Using - Eduardo Valle, Matthieu Cord, Sylvie Philipp-Foliguet
• Identifying and Tagging Titles in Web Texts - Clementine Adam, Estelle Delpech, Saint-Dizier Patrick
• Online ancient documents: Armarius - Reim Doumat, Elöd Egyed-Zsigmond, Jean-Marie Pinon, Emese Csiszar
• PDF document restoration and optimization during image enhancement - Hui Chao, Carl Staelin, Sagi Schein, Marie Vans, John Lumley
• A Rotation Method for Binary Document Images Using DDA Algorithm, Thanh Nguyen
• Segmentation of Overlapping Cursive Handwritten Digits - Carlos Mello, Edward Roe, Everton Lacerda
• Semantic Impact Graphs for Information Valuation - Sinan al-Saffar and Gregory Heileman
• Similarity of XML Schema Definitions - Irena Mlýnková
• Summarizing and Referring: Towards Cohesive Extracts - Patrícia Nunes Gonçalves, Lúcia Rino, Renata Vieira
• The CONCUR Framework for Community Maintenance of Curated Resources - Patrick Schmitz
• Tracking Sub-Page Components In Document Workflows - James A. Ollis, Steven R. Bagley and David F. Brailsford