Creating personalized documents: An optimization approach

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Abstract

The digital networked world is enabling and requiring a new emphasis on personalized document creation. The new, more dynamic digital environment demands tools that can reproduce both the contents and the layout automatically, tailored to personal needs and transformed for the presentation device, and can enable novices to easily create such documents. In order to achieve such automated document assembly and transformation, we have formalized custom document creation as a multiobjective optimization problem, and use a genetic algorithm to assemble and transform compound personalized documents. While we have found that such an automated process for document creation opens new possibilities and new workflows, we have also found several areas where further research would enable the approach to be more broadly and practically applied. This paper reviews the current system and outlines several areas where future research will broaden its current capabilities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
EditorsC. Vanoirbeek, C. Roisin, E. Munson
Pages68-77
Number of pages10
Publication statusPublished - 2003
EventProceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering - Grenoble, France
Duration: 20 Nov 200322 Nov 2003

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityGrenoble
Period20/11/0322/11/03

Keywords

  • Automated layout
  • Constrained optimization
  • Constraint-based reasoning
  • Document design
  • Genetic algorithm
  • Multiobjective optimization

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