CIAA 2008 First Call for Papers
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The Thirteenth International Conference on Implementation and
Application of Automata (CIAA) will take place in San Francisco,
California, USA on July 21-24, 2008. The conference is sponsored
by the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Sonoma State
University, a California State University campus.

The URL for the CIAA 2008 web site is:
http://ciaa2008.cs.sonoma.edu

The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the
academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest
in the theory, implementation and application of automata and related
structures. For a list of topics of the conference, please see
the web site http://ciaa2008.cs.sonoma.edu

Important dates

Deadline for submission: March 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 11, 2008
Submission for open problems session: April 13, 2008
Camera-ready version: April 25, 2008
Conference: July 21-24, 2008

Please note that CIAA 2008 will be four days long.
(In the past, CIAA conferences have been three days long.)
As another new feature of next year's conference, there will be a
session devoted to Open Problems.
Details about this session will be posted later on the web site.

On behalf of the CIAA 2008 publicity committee,
Andrei Paun and Kai Salomaa