DChanges 2018 - 5th International Workshop on (Document) Changes: Modeling, Detection, Storage and Visualization

DChanges 2018 is the fifth edition of the International Workshop on (Document) Changes: Modeling, Detection, Storage and Visualization, held in conjunction with the 18th ACM SIGWEB International Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2018). This year, the workshop will take place in Halifax, Canada, August 28th, 2018.
This year, we would like to focus on collaboration tools for non-textual documents. Three well known examples are images, videos and audio files. Other, more specialized types of documents, are, for instance, genetic sequences.
The development of collaboration tools for non-textual documents requires a new body of knowledge. Our current definition of "document'' has to be reviewed, and the technical way in which the analysis of documents is carried out must also change. Research on these topics is emerging and we would like to stimulate and promote it even further.
At DChanges, researchers and practitioners discuss and explore the state of the art in the field of document changes. The aim of the workshop is the study of changes in all its aspects and applications: algorithms to detect changes, models to describe changes, techniques to track changes, tools to understand and manage changes, etc.
We want to look at these topics from different perspectives, and take on different approaches. The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. It is a unique occasion to discuss these issues in an informal setting and to foster collaboration.
Themes of DChanges
We seek contributions on, but not necessarily limited to, the following themes:
Diff and change tracking algorithms
Change modeling and representation
High-level differences
Detecting changes on complex data structures
Detecting changes on trees, graphs, diagrams and any kind of document
Novel approaches to tree-based diff
Edit-distance measures
Quality of deltas and patches
Editing patterns
Semantic diff
Merging
Management of update conflicts
N-way merge algorithms
Propagation of changes
Versioning systems
Versioning
Collaborative editing
Real-time collaborative editing
Distributed collaboration
Refactoring
Use in Digital Humanities
Collation
Text genetics
Stemmatology
Plagiarism detection
Application outside of Software Engineering
Databases
Digital Humanities
Bioinformatics
Genetics
Law and legal documents