Call for Papers - DLT 2012

The 16th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2012) will take place in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 14 - 17, 2012. The conference will be hosted by the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University.  The conference is also under the auspices of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in formal languages, automata theory, and related areas.

TOPICS

Typical topics include, but are not limited to,  grammars, acceptors and transducers for words, trees and graphs, algebraic theories of automata; algorithmic, combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages; variable length codes; symbolic dynamics; cellular automata; polyominoes and multidimensional patterns; decidability questions; image manipulation and compression; efficient text algorithms; relationships to cryptography, concurrency, complexity theory and logic; bio-inspired computing; quantum computing.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: March 15, 2012
Notification:     April 30, 2012
Final version:    May 15, 2012
Conference:     August 14-17, 2012

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Simultaneous submission to journals or other conferences with published proceedings  is not allowed. Extended versions of selected papers from the proceedings will appear in a special issue of International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS).

Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should follow the LNCS-style LaTeX2e (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Papers should  be submitted electronically in PDF through the EasyChair system:

          http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt2012


INVITED SPEAKERS

Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest, Hungary)
Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich, Switzerland)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, Japan)
Jarkko Kari (Turku, Finland)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marie-Pierre Beal (Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Maxime Crochemore (London, UK)
Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest, Hungary)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig, Germany)
Dora Giammarresi (Rome, Italy)
Tero Harju (Turku, Finland)
Markus Holzer (Giessen, Germany)
Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich, Switzerland)
Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, USA, Co-Chair)
Masami Ito (Kyoto, Japan)
Michal Kunc (Brno, Czech Republic)
Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, Italy)
Gheorghe Paun (Sevilla, Spain)
Giovanni Pighizzini (Milan, Italy)
Bala Ravikumar (Rohnert Park, USA)
Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw, Poland)
Kai Salomaa (Kingston, Canada)
Colin Stirling (Edinburgh, UK)
Wolfgang Thomas (Aachen, Germany)
Mikhail V. Volkov (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
Bow-Yaw Wang (Taipei, Taiwan)
Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei, Taiwan, Co-Chair)
Sheng Yu (London, Canada)

CONTACT

Hsu-Chun Yen
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106  
Phone: +886 2 3366 3700 ext. 123
Fax: +886 2 2367 1909

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