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 Call for Submissions 
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 1999
on the themes of 
Hypermedia design and development 
and
Open hypermedia systems

NRHM is a refereed annual review journal covering research on practical and
theoretical developments in hypermedia, interactive multimedia and related
technologies. Issues (normally 10-12 papers) review and explore one or two
topical themes from diverse perspectives.

The themes for the 1999 issue of NRHM will be:

- Hypermedia design and development
        Guest editor David Lowe

- Open hypermedia systems
        Guest editor Kaj Gronbaek

Papers should be submitted to the appropriate theme editors. 
For Instructions to Authors, see http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~NRHM/ or
contact the Editor.

Submission deadline:       1st April 1999
Acceptance notification:   1st  August 1999
Final manuscripts due:     1st October 1999
Publication date:          Late 1999



Hypermedia Design and Development

Guest Editor David Lowe
Computer Systems Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney
P.O. Box 123, Broadway, Sydney, NSW, 2007 Australia
Tel: +61-2-9514-2526      Fax: +61-2-9514-2435
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]      
URL: www.eng.uts.edu.au/~dbl

Scope:

As evidenced by the recent explosion of interest in the World Wide Web, the
application of hypermedia concepts and technologies is growing at a rapid
rate, especially in terms of scope and complexity. Despite this, the
development of hypermedia applications - such as websites - is typically ad
hoc and poorly managed. The consequences are that results are often poor
quality, difficult to maintain and excessively expensive to produce,
particularly with respect to the effective utilisation of hypertext
functionality.

The purpose of this special issue of NRHM is to present articles which, when
taken together, demonstrate the range and depth of research addressing
issues related to how we can more effectively develop hypertext
applications. These articles may survey general areas of research or may
focus on specific new approaches or research results. In particular
submitted papers may cover any of the following areas (or others related to
hypermedia development):

- Design methodologies and/or models
- Frameworks for design
- Experiences in design
- Development processes and models
- Authoring environments
- User-interface design for hypermedia
- Cognitive issues in development
- Hypertext specification and specification languages
- Maintenance and/or reuse in hypermedia applications
- Hypertext patterns
- Development and/or design tools
- Hypermedia applications evaluation metrics and/or methods
- Distributed application development
- Application evolution
- Scoping of applications

Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically to the Guest
Editor, David Lowe, at the e-mail address above. There is no formal length
limit for articles, but authors who wish to submit a long article should
contact the guest editor prior to submission.



Open hypermedia systems

Guest Editor Kaj Gronbaek
Computer Science Dept, Aarhus University, 
Ebogade 34, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.
Tel: +45 8942 5636    Fax: +45 8942 5624
E-mail: [log in to unmask] 
URL: www.daimi.aau.dk/~kgronbak/

Scope:

Open hypermedia system (OHS) research addresses the issues of supporting
users with hypermedia as a seamless integrated feature of their working
environment. This involves integrating hypermedia functionality with
existing applications and document formats in a heterogeneous computing
environment. An open hypermedia system is a kind of "middleware" in the
computing environment offering hypermedia functionality to existing and
future applications via a standardized communication protocol independent of
document formats. Thus open hypermedia services make arbitrary applications
"hypermedia enabled". Open hypermedia functionality includes support for
hypermedia structuring such as linking into and from material managed by
applications without altering the material itself.  Open hypermedia
research, however, goes beyond linking and investigates new types of
hypermedia structuring mechanisms that can be applied to existing and
forthcoming applications. Open hypermedia research also covers authoring and
collaboration issues where information is produced and structured as part of
collaboration in groups. Finally, open hypermedia research addresses
distribution aspects of hypermedia structures as well as content. For
example, integration of open hypermedia services in the WWW environment is
an important area of research.

The purpose of this special issue of NRHM is to present articles which, when
taken together,  explore the state of the art in open hypermedia research.
We wish to solicit papers on all aspects of open hypermedia:

- Reference models, frameworks and system architectures
- Interoperability standards and protocols
* Applications of OHS in specific application domains 
* Scenarios for novel OHS application domains
- Development methods for open hypermedia applications
* Integration of open hypermedia in the WWW
* Integration of multimedia data such as video, sound and animations
- Presentation and user interface issues
- Collaboration support for OHS
- Distribution support for OHS
- OHS support for novel hypermedia concepts and structures
- Open hypermedia databases

Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically to the Guest
Editor, Kaj Gronbaek, at the e-mail address above. There is no formal
length limit for articles, but authors who wish to submit a long article
should contact the guest editor prior to submission.



NRHM Editor Douglas Tudhope  - [log in to unmask]
Associate Editor (UK) Daniel Cunliffe - [log in to unmask]
Associate Editor (US) Andrew Dillon - [log in to unmask]

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