Open AccessGuest Editorial
Author(s) -
Polian Ilia,
Tehranipoor Mohammed
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
iet computers and digital techniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 46
ISSN - 1751-861X
DOI - 10.1049/iet-cdt.2014.0194
Subject(s) - trojan , computer security , cryptography , computer science , hardware trojan , hardware security module , side channel attack , adversary , field programmable gate array , embedded system , authentication (law)
The ISO standard, Office Document Architecspecifying multiple column layout or specifying ture (ODA), defines a machine and system indethe position of page headers. The leaves of the tree pendent way to represent and exchange strucblocks and are used for positioning content. tured, multimedia information. It was created in Detailed information about a document is response to the growing need for heterogeneous placed into attributes that are attached to the systems to exchange documents containing multidocument's objects. For example, the attribute font text, graphics of various kinds and sophisti"indivisible" with the value "object type page" cared layout. The standard provides ways to go can be placed on a composite logical object and beyond text and graphics, and to expand the availmeans that the entire subtree should be formatted able media to accomodate audio, video and other on the same page. content. Readable introductions to the standard The specific structures in ODA refer to a parcan be found in a variety of places, such as the ticular document. ODA also provides generic verarticles by Dawson [5], Hunter [8] and Ansen [1], sions of logical and layout structures. The generic or in a recent book by Rosenberg et al. [12]. For structures serve as prototypes or examples of those unfamiliar with ODA, the following capsule documents. For example, a generic logical strucsummary will provide the reader with a basic ture can define a "book" to be a table of contents, understanding of the standard so that the articles followed by any number of chapters, followed by in this issue can be read profitably, an index. A particular book would have an actual ODA provides a way to represent a structured, table of contents, chapters containing the text of multimedia document. A structured document is the book and an index that refers to the text in the one that is organized around either a logical partichapters. A generic layout structure for a page tioning of a document, such as chapters, sections, could describe the amount of room to be left for and figures, or a layout partitioning of a docuheaders and footers, and the number of columns i.i]jji::j/.::::.:j.:: ment, such as pages, header areas and footnote to be used. A specific layout structure for a page ':::.:./:/.!://..i:. areas. A multimedia document is one that conresembles a page description language: the actual {i///j tains multifont text, raster images and geometric header, footer and column texts would be for/i_/ii graphics, matted at particular places, ready to be printed. :i.!-i.!.!::i-!::):i-::)')') The logical structure of a document in ODA is ODA uses a binary encoding of a document for ::-:-::-::/-:.:.:-:-::/represented by the specific logical structure, which storage in a file or transmission over a network. .