12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS

LATA 2018

Ramat Gan, Israel
April 8-12, 2018


Organized by:
Department of Computer Science
Bar-Ilan University

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2018/



Aims
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LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its
applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in
the field organized by Rovira i Virgili University since 2002, LATA 2018
will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their
career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields
as well as application areas.


Venue
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LATA 2018 will take place in Ramat Gan, in the district of Tel Aviv and home
to one of the world's major diamond exchanges. The venue will be the Faculty
of Exact Sciences of Bar-Ilan University.


Scope
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Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:
algebraic language theory
algorithms for semi-structured data mining
algorithms on automata and words
automata and logic
automata for system analysis and programme verification
automata networks
automatic structures
codes
combinatorics on words
computational complexity
concurrency and Petri nets
data and image compression
descriptional complexity
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
weighted automata


Structure
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LATA 2018 will consist of:

invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions


Invited speakers
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tba


Programme committee
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Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, DE)
Pablo Barceló (University of Chile, CL)
Francine Blanchet-Sadri (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, US)
Alexander Clark (King's College London, UK)
Frank Drewes (Umeå University, SE)
Manfred Droste (University of Leipzig, DE)
Dora Giammarresi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT)
Erich Grädel (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
Peter Habermehl (Paris Diderot University, FR)
Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University, US)
Pedro Rangel Henriques (University of Minho, PT)
Christian Höner zu Siederdissen (University of Leipzig, DE)
Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom (Leiden University, NL)
David Janin (University of Bordeaux, FR)
Marcin Jurdziński (University of Warwick, UK)
Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, JP)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI)
Shmuel Tomi Klein (Bar-Ilan University, IL)
Salvatore La Torre (University of Salerno, IT)
Salvador Lucas (Polytechnic University of Valencia, ES)
Stuart W. Margolis (Bar-Ilan University, IL)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Fernando Orejas (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, ES)
Paritosh K. Pandya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IN)
Gennaro Parlato (University of Southampton, UK)
Dominique Perrin (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, FR)
Detlef Plump (University of York, UK)
Matteo Pradella (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, CA)
Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool, UK)
William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA)
Jiri Srba (Aalborg University, DK)
Benjamin Steinberg (City College of New York, US)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG)
K.G. Subramanian (University Sains Malaysia, MY)
Klaus Sutner (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US)
Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, FR)
Mahesh Viswanathan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural State University, RU)


Organizing committee
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Shmuel Tomi Klein (Ramat Gan, co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Manuel Jesús Parra Royón (Granada)
Dana Shapira (Ariel)
David Silva (London)


Submissions
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Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format
for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). If necessary,
exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly
marked appendix.

Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2018


Publications
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A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be
available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers
contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.


Registration
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The registration form can be found at:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2018/Registration.php


Deadlines (all at 23:59 CET)
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Paper submission: November 17, 2017
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 24, 2017
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: January 4, 2018
Early registration: January 4, 2018
Late registration: March 25, 2018
Submission to the journal special issue: July 12, 2018


Questions and further information
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david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com


Postal address
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LATA 2018
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain