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We are pleased to announce that the Sixth International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems will be held in Florence, Italy. DAS04 will build on the tradition of past workshops held in Kaiserslautern, Germany (1994), Malvern, PA (1996), Nagano, Japan (1998), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000), and Princeton, NJ (2002).

Technical Focus

We invite contributions describing current research in the following areas:

Descriptions of complete, working DIA systems.
Studies of system architectures.
Links between document image analysis and digital libraries.
Algorithms for layout analysis.
Methods for table and form analysis.
Document image processing for the Internet.
Interfaces to knowledge databases and post-processors.
Document Image Retrieval systems.
Information Extraction from documents.
Algorithms for graphics recognition.
Learning and classification methodologies for DIA systems.
Applications to text, graphics, maps, music, etc.
Authoring, editing, presentation, and collaboration systems for complex multimedia documents.
Description of document databases.
Enterprise applications: intranet and workflow management.
Document reformatting for multimodal mobile access.
Methods of performance evaluation.

Workshop Format

As tradition, the workshop is organized into single track sessions. The central day will be devoted to invited talks, demo sessions, panel discussions, and banquet. Posters will be introduced by short presentations, so as to encourage an active participation of everyone. The working group discussion will be anticipated to the second day. To prepare this discussion each participant will be asked to list a few relevant topics when registering to the workshop. All the topics will be afterward ranked by attendees when arriving at workshop, in order to define topics and members of working groups. We plan to devote at least one session to presentations that have a significant demonstration component. These will receive extra time and are expected to include an overview talk followed by a live demo of the system in question.

DAS & DL

Several DIA systems exist and can potentially be applied to Digital Libraries. However, as yet there is no widely accepted understanding of what are the results that can be achieved on real documents from DLs. To stimulate such comparison we propose a simple “game”. The workshop organizers will identify representative documents from Internet DLs, and put their reference in the Workshop web site. Interested participants will test their systems on these data, submit papers specifically addressing this “game”, and show their results in one demo session. Detailed guidelines concerning the data and the experimental framework of the will be given in the workshop website.

Publications

As in the past, pre-proceedings will be made available on-site. After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a post-workshop book.

Paper submission:

Original and unpublished contributions are solicited which include regular papers and extended abstracts.
Potential participants should submit a paper describing their work in one of the areas described above. Each regular paper must be accompanied by a 300-word abstract summarizing the contribution it makes to the field.

Paper length is fixed as follows (paper must be submitted in LNCS format):

Regular papers (at most 12 pages)
Extended abstracts (maximum 4 pages)

Authors must explicitly indicate at the time of submission whether they would like their paper considered for the demo presentation session (for which extra time will be allocated).

Submission of a paper constitutes a commitment that, if accepted, one or more authors will attend and participate in the workshop.

Electronic submission is requested. The manuscript, complete with illustrations and abstract, must be sent as a postscript or PDF according to instructions that will be posted here in the near future.

Important Dates: Updated

Deadline for paper submission: February, 29 2004 (GMT midnight)

Deadline for poster submission: April, 1 2004

Notification of acceptance: May, 15 2004

Camera Ready due and registration: June, 15 2004