A framework for variable content document generation with multiple actors

“NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Information and Software Technology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Information and Software Technology, Volume 56, Issue 9, September 2014, Pages 1101–1121 DOI10.1016/j.infsof.2013.12.006Context - Advances in customization have highlighted the need for tools supporting variable content document management and generation in many domains. Current tools allow the generation of highly customized documents that are variable in both content and layout. However, most frameworks are technology-oriented, and their use requires advanced skills in implementation-related tools, which means their use by end users (i.e. document designers) is severely limited. Objective - Starting from past and current trends for customized document authoring, our goal is to provide a document generation alternative in which variants are specified at a high level of abstraction and content reuse can be maximized in high variability scenarios. Method Based on our experience in Document Engineering, we identified areas in the variable content document management and generation field open to further improvement. We first classified the primary sources of variability in document composition processes and then developed a methodology, which we called DPL based on Software Product Lines principles to support document generation in high variability scenarios. Results - In order to validate the applicability of our methodology we implemented a tool DPLfw to carry out DPL processes. After using this in different scenarios, we compared our proposal with other state-of-the-art tools for variable content document management and generation. Conclusion - The DPLfw showed a good capacity for the automatic generation of variable content documents equal to or in some cases surpassing other currently available approaches. To the best of our knowledge, DPLfw is the only framework that combines variable content and document workflow facilities, easing the generation of variable content documents in which multiple actors play different roles.This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad under Grant TIPEx (TIN2010-19859-C03-03).Gómez Llana, A.; Penadés Gramage, MC.; Canos Cerda, JH.; Borges, MR.; Llavador Campos, M. (2014). A framework for variable content document generation with multiple actors. Information and Software Technology. 56(9):1101-1121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2013.12.006S1101112156

Product Line-based customization of e-Government documents

International audienceContent personalization has been one of the major trends in recent Document Engineering Research. The "one docum ent for n users" paradigm is being replaced by the "one user, one document" model, where the content to be delivered to a particular user is generated by some means. This is a very promising approach for e-Government, where personalized government services, including document generation, are more and more required by users. In this paper, we introduce a method to the generation of personalized documents called Document Product Lines (DPL). DPL allows generating content in domains with high variability and with high levels of reuse. We describe the basic principles underlying DPL and show its application to the e-Government field using the personalized tax statement as case study

Giant magnetic anisotropy at nanoscale: overcoming the superparamagnetic limit

It has been recently observed for palladium and gold nanoparticles, that the magnetic moment at constant applied field does not change with temperature over the range comprised between 5 and 300 K. These samples with size smaller than 2.5 nm exhibit remanence up to room temperature. The permanent magnetism for so small samples up to so high temperatures has been explained as due to blocking of local magnetic moment by giant magnetic anisotropies. In this report we show, by analysing the anisotropy of thiol capped gold films, that the orbital momentum induced at the surface conduction electrons is crucial to understand the observed giant anisotropy. The orbital motion is driven by localised charge and/or spin through spin orbit interaction, that reaches extremely high values at the surfaces. The induced orbital moment gives rise to an effective field of the order of 103 T that is responsible of the giant anisotropy.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PR

Verb + adverbial idiom collocations – theoretical and applied implications

En investigaciones recientes sobre las colocaciones del tipo verbo más adverbio, se está comprobando la veracidad de la hipótesis que sostiene que los verbos y los adverbios de manera comparten rasgos semánticos que clasifican los verbos en paradigmas semánticos. El artículo muestra que igual ocurre en colocaciones complejas de verbo más locución adverbial: preguntar a bocajarro. Si las locuciones adverbiales de manera determinan el establecimiento de paradigmas semánticos de verbos, las características de binarismo y arbitrariedad, presentes en algunas definiciones de colocación, no sirven para diferenciar esta unidad lingüística, que, por otra parte, tampoco pertenece a la norma. A las implicaciones teóricas anteriores se añaden otras aplicadas, relativas a la elaboración de diccionarios de colocaciones y a su enseñanza-aprendizaje en ELE, cuestión esta última de especial interés en unas unidades percibidas como específicas de una lengua e inmotivadas.In recent research on verb + adverb collocations, the hypothesis maintaining that verbs and adverbs of manner share semantic characteristics that classify verbs in semantic paradigms is proving to be true. This article shows that the same occurs in complex collocations composed of a verb and an adverbial idiom: preguntar a bocajarro (ask point-blank). If adverbial idioms of manner determine the establishment of semantic paradigms of verbs, the characteristics of binarism and arbitrarity, which are present in some definitions of collocation, are not of use in distinguishing this linguistic unit, which, furthermore, does not meet the norm. To the existing theoretical implications we can add other applied ones, relative to the compilation of dictionaries of collocations and their teaching and learning in SFL, which is of particular interest in units considered to be specific to one language and unmotivated

Verb + adverbial idiom collocations – theoretical and applied implications

En investigaciones recientes sobre las colocaciones del tipo verbo más adverbio, se está comprobando la veracidad de la hipótesis que sostiene que los verbos y los adverbios de manera comparten rasgos semánticos que clasifican los verbos en paradigmas semánticos. El artículo muestra que igual ocurre en colocaciones complejas de verbo más locución adverbial: preguntar a bocajarro. Si las locuciones adverbiales de manera determinan el establecimiento de paradigmas semánticos de verbos, las características de binarismo y arbitrariedad, presentes en algunas definiciones de colocación, no sirven para diferenciar esta unidad lingüística, que, por otra parte, tampoco pertenece a la norma. A las implicaciones teóricas anteriores se añaden otras aplicadas, relativas a la elaboración de diccionarios de colocaciones y a su enseñanza-aprendizaje en ELE, cuestión esta última de especial interés en unas unidades percibidas como específicas de una lengua e inmotivadas.In recent research on verb + adverb collocations, the hypothesis maintaining that verbs and adverbs of manner share semantic characteristics that classify verbs in semantic paradigms is proving to be true. This article shows that the same occurs in complex collocations composed of a verb and an adverbial idiom: preguntar a bocajarro (ask point-blank). If adverbial idioms of manner determine the establishment of semantic paradigms of verbs, the characteristics of binarism and arbitrarity, which are present in some definitions of collocation, are not of use in distinguishing this linguistic unit, which, furthermore, does not meet the norm. To the existing theoretical implications we can add other applied ones, relative to the compilation of dictionaries of collocations and their teaching and learning in SFL, which is of particular interest in units considered to be specific to one language and unmotivated