Appel: LATA 2007 (2nd call)

Tue Oct 10 08:56:57 UTC 2006

Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:14:40 GMT
From: <carlos.martin at urv.cat>
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X-url: http://www.grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2007/
X-url: http://www.easychair.org/LATA2007/

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2nd Call for Papers

1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS (LATA 2007)

Tarragona, Spain, March 29 - April 4, 2007

http://www.grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2007/

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AIMS:

LATA 2007 intends to become a major conference in theoretical computer
science and its applications. As linked to the International PhD
School in Formal Languages and Applications that is being developed at
the host institute since 2001, it will reserve significant room for
young computer scientists at the beginning of their career. LATA 2007
will aim at attracting scholars from both classical theory fields and
application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language
technology, artificial intelligence, etc.).

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

- words, languages and automata
- grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional,
  unification, categorial, etc.)
- grammars and automata architectures
- combinatorics on words
- language varieties and semigroups
- algebraic language theory
- computability
- computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized
  complexity
- patterns and codes
- regulated rewriting
- trees, tree languages and tree machines
- term rewriting
- graphs and graph transformation
- power series
- fuzzy and rough languages
- cellular automata
- DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
- quantum, chemical and optical computing
- biomolecular nanotechnology
- automata and logic
- automata for verification
- automata, concurrency and Petri nets
- parsing
- weighted machines
- foundations of finite state technology
- grammatical inference and learning
- symbolic neural networks
- text retrieval and pattern recognition
- string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and
  bioinformatics
- mathematical evolutionary genomics
- language-based cryptography
- compression
- circuit theory and applications
- language theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and
  artificial life

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2007 will consist of:

- 3 invited talks
- 2 invited tutorials
- refereed contributions
- open sessions for discussion in specific subfields
- young sessions on professional issues

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Volker Diekert (UStuttgart), Equations: From Words to Graph Products
   (tutorial)

Nissim Francez & Michael Kaminski (Technion), Extensions of Pregroup
   Grammars and Their Correlated Automata

Eric Graedel (RWTH Aachen), Infinite Games (tutorial)

Neil Immerman (UMass, Amherst), Nested Words

Helmut Jürgensen (UWestern Ontario), Synchronization and Codes
   (tentative title)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Francine Blanchet-Sadri (Greensboro)
Paola Bonizzoni (Milan)
Henning Bordihn (Potsdam)
John Brzozowski (Waterloo)
Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest)
Carsten Damm (Goettingen)
Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv)
Pal Domosi (Debrecen)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig)
Zoltan Esik (Tarragona, co-chair)
Joerg Flum (Freiburg, Germany)
Jozef Gruska (Brno)
Tero Harju (Turku)
Colin de la Higuera (Saint-Etienne)
Markus Holzer (Munich)
Lucian Ilie (London, Canada)
Masami Ito (Kyoto)
Jarkko Kari (Turku)
Andre Kempe (Grenoble)
Jetty Kleijn (Leiden)
Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Thierry Lecroq (Rouen)
Stuart Margolis (Ramat Gan)
Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Risto Miikkulainen (Austin)
Victor Mitrana (Tarragona, co-chair)
Claudio Moraga (Dortmund)
Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima)
Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen)
Mitsunori Ogihara (Rochester)
Alexander Okhotin (Turku)
Friedrich Otto (Kassel)
Holger Petersen (Stuttgart)
Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw)
Kai Salomaa (Kingston, Canada)
Magnus Steinby (Turku)
Shuly Wintner (Haifa)
Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt)
Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei)
Sheng Yu (London, Canada)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Madalina Barbaiani
Gemma Bel-Enguix
Cristina Bibire
Carlos Cruz Reyes
Adrian Horia Dediu
Szilard Zsolt Fazekas
Maria Adela Grando
Mihai Ionescu
M. Dolores Jimenez-Lopez
Alexander Krassovitskiy
Guangwu Liu
Remco Loos
Carlos Martin-Vide (chair)
Tsetsegkhand Namsrai
Anthonath Roslin Sagaya Mary
Sherzod Turaev

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and
unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 pages and should be
formatted according to the usual LNCS article style. Submissions have
to be sent through the web page:

http://www.easychair.org/LATA2007/

PUBLICATION:

A volume of pre-proceedings will be available by the time of the
conference. It is expected that a refereed volume of selected
proceedings will be published soon after it in the LNCS Springer
series.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration will be since January 9 to March 29,
2007. Details about how to register will be provided through the
website of the conference in due time.

Early registration fees: 200 euros
Early registration fees (PhD students): 50 euros
Registration fees: 300 euros
Registration fees (PhD students): 75 euros

FUNDING:

40 grants covering partial-board accommodation in the university
hostel will be available for nonlocal PhD students. To apply, the
candidate must e-mail her/his CV together with a copy of the document
proving her/his condition as a PhD student.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: November 30, 2006
Application for funding (PhD students): December 15, 2006
Notification of funding acceptance or rejection: December 31, 2006
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: January 31, 2007
Early registration: February 15, 2007
Final version of the paper for the pre-proceedings: February 28, 2007 
Starting of the conference: March 29, 2007
Submission to the proceedings volume: May 15, 2007

FURTHER INFORMATION:

carlos.martin at urv.cat

ADDRESS:

LATA 2007
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Plaza Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-559597

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