Call for Papers - DLT 2021

The 25th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2021) will take place in Porto, Portugal on August 16-20, 2021.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in formal languages, automata theory, and related areas.

COVID-19:

Due to possible travel restrictions the conference is planned to be held hybrid, with in-person and remote participation. However, the organisers together with the Steering Committee will continue to monitor the pandemic situation.

TOPICS

Typical topics include, but are not limited to, grammars, acceptors and transducers for words, trees and graphs, algebraic theories of automata; algorithmic, combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages; variable length codes; symbolic dynamics; cellular automata; polyominoes and multidimensional patterns; decidability questions; image manipulation and compression; efficient text algorithms; relationships to cryptography, concurrency, complexity theory and logic; bio-inspired computing; quantum computing.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Deadline for submissions: April 11th 23, 2021
  • Notification to authors: May 24th, 2021
  • Final Version : June 7th, 2021
  • DLT 2021 : August 16-20th, 2021

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series and a selected set of papers will be invited to a special issue of International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science. Simultaneous submission to journals or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages (including bibliography) and should follow the LNCS-style LaTeX2e (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Furthermore, authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and are encouraged to include their ORCIDs in their papers. All proofs omitted due to space constraints should be given in an appendix or made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic preprint. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF through the EasyChair system.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  • Szilárd Fazekas (Akita University, Japan)
  • Dora Giammarresi (Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy)
  • Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, South Korea)
  • Juraj Hromkovic (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  • Oscar Ibarra (University of California, USA)
  • Natasha Jonoska (University of South Florida)
  • Christos Kapoutsis (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar)
  • Jarkko Kari, (University of Turku, Finland)
  • Martin Kutrib (Universität Giessen, Germany)
  • Andreas Maletti (University of Leipzig)
  • Tomáš Masopust (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czechia)
  • Ian McQuillan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
  • Carlo Mereghetti (University of Milano, Italy)
  • Nelma Moreira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) co-chair
  • Giovanni Pighizzini (University of Milano, Italy)
  • Rogério Reis (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) co-chair
  • Michael Rigo (University of Liége, Belgium)
  • Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Canada)
  • Marinella Sciortino (Università di Palermo, Italy)
  • Philippe Schnoebelen (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
  • Helmut Seidl (Technical University Munich, Germany)
  • Shinnosuke Seki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
  • Jeffrey Shallit (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  • György Vaszil (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
  • Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
  • Marc Zeitoun (University of Bordeaux, France)