[FOM] LATA 2009: call for papers

[carlos.martin@urv.cat]

Call for Papers

3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND 
AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2009)

Tarragona, Spain, April 2-8, 2009

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/

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AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical 
computer science and its applications. As linked 
to the International PhD School in Formal 
Languages and Applications that was developed at 
the host institute in the period 2002-2006, LATA 
2009 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, systems biology, language 
technology, artificial intelligence, etc.).

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest 
include, but are not limited to:

- algebraic language theory
- algorithms on automata and words
- automata and logic
- automata for system analysis and programme verification
- automata, concurrency and Petri nets
- biomolecular nanotechnology
- cellular automata
- circuits and networks
- combinatorics on words
- computability
- computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized complexity
- data and image compression
- decidability questions on words and languages
- digital libraries
- DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
- document engineering
- extended automata
- foundations of finite state technology
- fuzzy and rough languages
- grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, 
multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.)
- grammars and automata architectures
- grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
- graphs and graph transformation
- language varieties and semigroups
- language-based cryptography
- language-theoretic foundations of natural 
language processing, artificial intelligence and artificial life
- mathematical evolutionary genomics
- parsing
- patterns and codes
- power series
- quantum, chemical and optical computing
- regulated rewriting
- string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics
- symbolic dynamics
- symbolic neural networks
- term rewriting
- text algorithms
- text retrieval, pattern matching and pattern recognition
- transducers
- trees, tree languages and tree machines
- weighted machines

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2009 will consist of:

- 3 invited talks (to be announced in the second call for papers)
- 2 invited tutorials (to be announced in the second call for papers)
- refereed contributions
- open sessions for discussion in specific 
subfields or on professional issues (if requested by the participants)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Parosh Abdulla (Uppsala)
Stefania Bandini (Milano)
Stephen Bloom (Hoboken)
John Brzozowski (Waterloo)
Maxime Crochemore (London)
Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Michael Domaratzki (Winnipeg)
Henning Fernau (Trier)
Rusins Freivalds (Riga)
Vesa Halava (Turku)
Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich)
Lucian Ilie (London, Canada)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto)
Aravind Joshi (Philadelphia)
Juhani Karhumaki (Turku)
Jarkko Kari (Turku)
Claude Kirchner (Bordeaux)
Maciej Koutny (Newcastle)
Kamala Krithivasan (Chennai)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Andrzej Lingas (Lund)
Aldo de Luca (Napoli)
Rupak Majumdar (Los Angeles)
Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona & Brussels, chair)
Joachim Niehren (Villeneuve d'Ascq)
Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
Joerg Rothe (Duesseldorf)
Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw)
Philippe Schnoebelen (Cachan)
Thomas Schwentick (Dortmund)
Helmut Seidl (Muenchen)
Alan Selman (Buffalo)
Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo)
Frank Stephan (Singapore)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Madalina Barbaiani
Gemma Bel-Enguix
Cristina Bibire
Adrian-Horia Dediu
Szilard-Zsolt Fazekas
Alexander Krassovitskiy
Guangwu Liu
Carlos Martin-Vide (chair)
Robert Mercas
Catalin-Ionut Tirnauca
Bianca Truthe
Sherzod Turaev
Florentina-Lilica Voicu

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting 
original and unpublished research. Papers should 
not exceed 12 single-spaced pages and should be 
formatted according to the standard format for 
Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see 
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). 
Submissions have to be uploaded at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2009

PUBLICATION:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in 
the LNCS series will be available by the time of 
the conference. A refereed volume of extended 
versions of selected papers will be published 
after it as a special issue of a major journal. 
(This was Information and Computation for LATA 2007 and LATA 2008.)

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration will be open since 
September 1, 2008 to April 2, 2009. The 
registration form can be found at the website of 
the conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/

Early registration fees: 450 euros
Early registration fees (PhD students): 225 euros
Registration fees: 540 euros
Registration fees (PhD students): 270 euros

At least one author per paper should register. 
Papers that do not have a registered author by 
December 31, 2008 will be excluded from the proceedings.

Fees comprise free access to all sessions, one 
copy of the proceedings volume, and coffee 
breaks. For the participation in the full-day 
excursion and conference lunch on Sunday April 5, 
the amount of 70 euros is to be added to the fees 
above: accompanying persons are welcome at the same rate.

PAYMENT:

Early registration fees must be paid by bank 
transfer before December 31, 2008 to the 
conference account at Open Bank (Plaza Manuel 
Gomez Moreno 2, 28020 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: 
ES1300730100510403506598 - Swift code: 
OPENESMMXXX (account holder: LATA 2009 ­ Carlos Martin-Vide).

(Non-early) registration fees can be paid either 
by bank transfer to the same account or in cash on site.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is 
required to fill in the registration form at the 
website of the conference. A receipt for the payment will be provided on site.

FUNDING:

Up to 20 grants covering partial-board 
accommodation will be available for nonlocal PhD 
students. To apply, candidates must e-mail their 
CV together with a copy of the document proving 
their present status as a PhD student.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: October 22, 2008
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 10, 2008
Application for funding (PhD students): December 15, 2008
Notification of funding acceptance or rejection: December 19, 2008
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: December 24, 2008
Early registration: December 31, 2008
Starting of the conference: April 2, 2009
Submission to the journal special issue: June 22, 2009

FURTHER INFORMATION:

carlos.martin at urv.cat

ADDRESS:

LATA 2009
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Plaza Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-559597