5th International Workshop on
``Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications''
(NCMA 2013)
August 13 - 14, 2013, in Umea (Sweden)
- Call for Papers -

Research papers are invited that contain original contributions on non-classical
models of automata and applications and related subjects. Many non-classical
models of automata and grammar-like structures are the natural objects of
theoretical computer science. They are studied from different points of view in
various areas, both as theoretical concepts and as formal models for applications.
The aim of the workshops on
``Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications''
is to provide an opportunity for researchers that work on different aspects of
non-classical models of automata and grammars to exchange and develop novel ideas.
Topics for NCMA 2013 include the following:
- formal models inspired by Linguistics, Bio-Computing, Text Processing, Document
Engineering, Self-Assemblance, etc.,
- bio-inspired models of automata and generative devices,
- cellular automata,
- forgetting automata and restarting automata,
- automata with additional resources,
- regulated rewriting/automata,
- networks of automata or generative devices,
- models of cooperation and communication,
- quantum automata,
but other related topics are also welcome. In particular, it should be stressed that
also contributions dealing with questions on classical automata and generative
devices are welcome.

The first workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications, NCMA 2009,
was held in Wroclaw, Poland, in 2009 as a satellite event of FCT 2009, sponsored by
the AutoMathA project of the European Science Foundation (ESF). The second workshop,
NCMA 2010, was held in Jena, Germany, as an associated workshop of the Conference on
Membrane Computing (CMC 2010), the third workshop, NCMA 2011, was organized at the
Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, and the fourth workshop, NCMA 2012,
was held in Fribourg, Switzerland. The proceedings of these workshops have appeared
as volumes 256, 263, 282, and 290 in the series books@ocg.at of the Austrian Computer
Society. In addition, special issues of Fundamenta Informaticae were dedicated to
NCMA 2009 (Vol. 104 (1-2), 2010) and to NCMA 2010 (Vol. 112 (2-3), 2011), a special
issue of RAIRO Theoretical Informatics and Applications was dedicated to NCMA 2011
(Vol. 46 (4), 2012), and a special issue of RAIRO Theoretical Informatics and
Applications for NCMA 2012 is in preparation. The proceedings of NCMA 2013 will again
appear as a volume in the series books@ocg.at, and extended and carefully revised
versions of selected contributions will be published in a special issue of Fundamenta
Informaticae.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submissions: May 26, 2013
Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2013
Deadline for final papers: July 14, 2013
Workshop: August 13-14, 2013.

Submissions:

Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 16 pages in OCG-style (please see the
web-page ``ncma2013.cs.umu.se'' for detailed information) in electronic form
(Postscript or PDF). All submissions will be reviewed by at least three referees.
Proofs omitted due to space constraints may be put into an appendix that will be read
by the reviewers at their discretion. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences
or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. To submit your paper, please
visit https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ncma2013

Program Committee:
- Suna Bensch (Umea, Co-Chair)
- Henning Bordihn (Potsdam, Germany)
- Frank Drewes (Umea, Co-Chair)
- Jerome Durand-Lose (Orleans, France)
- Mika Hirvensalo (Turku, Finland)
- Mario de Jesus Perez Jimenez (Sevilla, Spain)
- Martin Kutrib (Giessen, Germany)
- Florin Manea (Kiel, Germany)
- Peter Leupold (Leipzig, Germany)
- Andreas Maletti (Stuttgart, Germany)
- Frantisek Mraz (Prague, Czech Republic)
- Friedrich Otto (Kassel, Germany, Co-Chair)
- Beatrice Palano (Milan, Italy)
- Daniel Reidenbach (Loughborough, Great Britain)
- Rogerio Reis (Porto, Portugal)
- Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg, Germany)
- Gyorgy Vaszil (Debrecen, Hungary)
- Mikhail Volkov (Yekaterinburg, Russia)

Local Organizers:
- Suna Bensch
- Martin Berglund
- Henrik Bjorklund
- Johanna Bjorklund
- Frank Drewes
- Niklas Zechner

Local Information:
Umea is easily reached by plane, as there are numerous daily flights to and
from Stockholm. In addition, there are daily ferries to and from Vaasa (Finland).
More information can be found at the web-page of NCMA 2013:
ncma2013.cs.umu.se