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8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS

LATA 2014

Madrid, Spain

March 10-14, 2014

Organized by:

Research Group on Implementation of Language-Driven Software and
Applications (ILSA)
Complutense University of Madrid

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

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/

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AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference on theoretical computer science and its
applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in
the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002,
LATA 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning
of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical
theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, language technology,
artificial intelligence, etc.).

VENUE:

LATA 2014 will take place in Madrid, the capital of Spain. The venue will be
the School of Informatics of Complutense University.

SCOPE:

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, concurrency and Petri nets
automatic structures
cellular automata
codes
combinatorics on words
compilers
computability
computational complexity
data and image compression
decidability issues on words and languages
descriptional complexity
DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
digital libraries and document engineering
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
fuzzy and rough languages
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial
life
natural language and speech automatic processing
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
quantum, chemical and optical computing
semantics
string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
symbolic neural networks
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
weighted automata

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2014 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Javier Esparza (Munich Tech, DE), On Trees and Fixed Point Equations
(tutorial)
Leslie A. Goldberg (Oxford, UK), The Complexity of Approximate Counting
Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, US), tba
Sanjeev Khanna (Philadelphia, US), tba
Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE), tba

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Dana Angluin (Yale, US)
Eugene Asarin (Paris Diderot, FR)
Jos Baeten (Amsterdam, NL)
Christel Baier (Dresden, DE)
Jan Bergstra (Amsterdam, NL)
Jin-Yi Cai (Madison, US)
Marek Chrobak (Riverside, US)
Andrea Corradini (Pisa, IT)
Mariangiola Dezani (Turin, IT)
Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas, US)
Michael R. Fellows (Darwin, AU)
Jörg Flum (Freiburg, DE)
Nissim Francez (Technion, IL)
Jürgen Giesl (Aachen, DE)
Annegret Habel (Oldenburg, DE)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP)
Sampath Kannan (Philadelphia, US)
Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern, US)
Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque, US)
Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen, DE)
S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins, US)
Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton, CA)
Gad M. Landau (Haifa, IL)
Andrzej Lingas (Lund, SE)
Jack Lutz (Iowa State, US)
Ian Mackie (École Polytechnique, FR)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, IT)
Faron G. Moller (Swansea, UK)
Paliath Narendran (Albany, US)
Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE)
Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch, ZA)
Jean-François Raskin (Brussels, BE)
Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin, DE)
Marco Roveri (Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT)
Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy, FR)
Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio, JP)
Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna, IT)
Colin Stirling (Edinburgh, UK)
Jianwen Su (Santa Barbara, US)
Jean-Pierre Talpin (IRISA, Rennes, FR)
Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL)
Rick Thomas (Leicester, UK)
Sophie Tison (Lille, FR)
Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney, AU)
Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech, AT)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Ana Fernández-Pampillón (Madrid)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Antonio Sarasa (Madrid)
José-Luis Sierra (Madrid, co-chair)
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to
the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2014

PUBLICATIONS:

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 extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from July 15, 2013 to March 10, 2014.
The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: October 14, 2013 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2013
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2013
Early registration: December 9, 2013
Late registration: February 24, 2014
Starting of the conference: March 10, 2014
End of the conference: March 14, 2014
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: June 14, 2014

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

LATA 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Universitat Rovira i Virgili