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CALL FOR PAPERS
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AFL 2008: The 12th International Conference on Automata and Formal Languages

Balatonfüred, Hungary, May 27-30, 2008


Conference website: http://www.conferences.hu/afl2008

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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
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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Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original unpublished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.
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INVITED SPEAKERS:

Viliam Geffert (Kosice, Slovakia)
Markus Lohrey (Leipzig, Germany)
Ion Petre (Turku, Finland)
Jacques Sakarovitch (Paris, France)


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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)

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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)

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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