AFL 2008

.....................................................................................................                                   CALL FOR PAPERS ...................................................................................................... AFL 2008: The 12th International Conference on Automata and Formal Languages Balatonfüred, Hungary, May 27-30, 2008

Conference website: http://www.conferences.hu/afl2008 ............................................................................................................                                     IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submissions:              March 7, 2008 Notification to the authors:              April 20, 2008 Final version :                                May 4, 2008 Conference:                                  May 27-30, 2008 ..............................................................................................................                                   TOPICS: Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original unpublished research in all areas automata and formal languages and their applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs, arrays, etc., - algebraic theories for automata and languages, - combinatorial properties of words and languages, - decision problems, - efficient algorithms for automata and languages, - descriptional and computational complexity of automata and languages, - formal power series and weighted automata, - cellular automata, - relations to        -logic, -picture description and analysis, -concurrency, -distributed systems, multi-agent systems -bio-inspired computing, -quantum computing, -cryptography. ..................................................................................................................                                    INVITED SPEAKERS: Viliam Geffert            (Kosice, Slovakia) Markus Lohrey          (Leipzig, Germany) Ion Petre                   (Turku, Finland) Jacques Sakarovitch  (Paris, France)

....................................................................................................................                                   PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Symeon Bozapalidis     (Thessaloniki, Greece) Olivier Carton               (Paris, France) Alessandra Cherubini    (Milan, Italy) Christian Choffrut          (Paris, France) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú  (Budapest, Hungary), chair Jürgen Dassow             (Magdeburg, Germany) Pál Dömösi                  (Debrecen, Hungary) Zoltán �?sik                   (Szeged, Hungary), co-chair Zoltán Fülöp                 (Szeged, Hungary) Mika Hirvensalo            (Turku, Finland) Markus Holzer              (Munich, Germany) Oscar H. Ibarra             (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) Masami Ito                   (Kyoto, Japan) Werner Kuich                (Wien, Austria) Martin Kutrib                 (Giessen, Germany) Maurice Margenstern     (Metz, France) Victor Mitrana               (Bucharest/Tarragona, Romania/Spain) Giovanni Pighizzini        (Milan, Italy) Kai Salomaa                 (Kingston, Canada) György Vaszil               (Budapest, Hungary) Detlef Wotschke           (Frankfurt, Germany) ....................................................................................................                                   STEERING COMMITTE: András �?dám                 (Budapest, Hungary) István Babcsányi            (Budapest, Hungary) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú    (Budapest, Hungary) Pál Dömösi                    (Debrecen, Hungary) Zoltán �?sik                     (Szeged, Hungary) Zoltán Fülöp                   (Szeged, Hungary) Ferenc Gécseg               (Szeged, Hungary) Sándor Horváth               (Budapest, Hungary) László Kászonyi             (Szombathely, Hungary) Attila Nagy                     (Budapest, Hungary) Antal Pukler                   (Gy�?r, Hungary) Miklós Szíjártó               (Gy�?r, Hungary) ..........................................................................................................

PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper in the form of a pdf file. The length of the submission must not exceed 12 pages, fitting to A4 paper, using 10pt character size, and single line spacing. The paper should provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance. If appropriate, then detailed proofs can be attached as an appendix. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Only electronic submissions are accepted, PLEASE FOLLOW the INSTRUCTIONS on the CONFERENCE WEB SITE: http://www.conferences.hu/afl2008

PROCEEDINGS: The proceedings will be published by the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and will be available at the conference. SPECIAL ISSUE: We anticipate that a special issue of the International Journal of Foundations of  Computer Science will be devoted to selected and revised papers presented at the conference.

PLEASE CONTACT: Scientific Programme: Dr. Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1111, Budapest Kende u.13-17, Hungary E-mail: csuhaj@sztaki.hu

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Mrs. Mariann Kindl Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1111 Kende u.13-17, Hungary Phone: +36-1-279-6188 Fax: +36-1-386-9378 Email: afl2008@conferences.hu	 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP