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AFL 2026 – Call for Papers

17th International Conference on Automata and Formal Languages

September 7–10, 2026, Košice, Slovakia

Conference website: https://afl2026.ics.upjs.sk/

The AFL series, initiated in Hungary by the late Professor István Peák in 1980, has a long tradition. The AFL conferences cover all aspects of automata and formal languages, including theory and applications. In 2026, the conference is organized for the first time in Slovakia by the Faculty of Science, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice and the Mathematical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: May 20, 2026
Notification: July 6, 2026
Final version: July 14, 2026
Conference: September 7-10, 2026

TOPICS:

Submissions consisting of original research studying subjects in the theory of automata and/or formal languages are welcome for AFL 2026. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs, arrays, etc.,
- algebraic theories for automata and languages,
- combinatorial properties of words and languages,
- formal power series,
- decision problems, efficient algorithms for automata and languages,
- complexity theory and logic,
- picture description and analysis,
- quantum computing,
- cryptography,
- concurrency,
- applications of automata and language theory in biology, natural language processing, and other fields.

The scientific program will consist of invited lectures and contributed presentations selected by the international Program Committee.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Viliam Geffert (P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia)
Marek Szykuła (University of Wrocław, Poland)
Matthias Wendlandt (University of Giessen, Germany)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Henning Bordihn (Potsdam)
Miroslav Ćirić (Niš)
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Budapest)
Pál Dömösi (Debrecen/Nyíregyháza)
Frank Drewes (Umeå)
Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas (Akita)
Henning Fernau (Trier)
Zsolt Gazdag (Szeged)
Viliam Geffert (Košice)
Markus Holzer (Giessen)
Géza Horváth (Debrecen)
Michal Hospodár (Košice)
Galina Jirásková (Košice, co-chair)
Gergely Kovásznail (Eger)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Markus Lohrey (Siegen)
Sylvain Lombardy (Bordeaux)
Andreas Maletti (Leipzig)
Florin Manea (Göttingen)
Sebastian Maneth (Bremen)
Sabrina Mantaci (Palermo)
Ian McQuillan (Saskatoon)
Victor Mitrana (Bucharest/Madrid)
František Mráz (Prague)
Benedek Nagy (Famagusta)
Luca Prigioniero (Loughborough)
Rogério Reis (Porto)
Agustín Riscos-Núñez (Sevilla)
Kai Salomaa (Kingston)
Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo)
Petr Sosík (Opava/Ostrava)
György Vaszil (Debrecen, co-chair)

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Authors are invited to submit original research papers in electronic form. Submissions must not exceed 15 pages in EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/) including bibliography. Each paper will be single-blind reviewed by three Program Committee members. Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other conference with published proceedings or submitting previously published papers is not allowed.

If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the main claims, they may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. Upon acceptance, this appendix will not be contained in the proceedings.

Information about the submission procedure is available on the conference web page below:

https://afl2026.ics.upjs.sk/paper-preparation/

PROCEEDINGS:

The proceedings will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series.

SPECIAL ISSUE:

A special issue with revised and extended versions of selected papers of the conference will appear in the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Peter Gurský
Michal Hospodár (co-chair)
Jozef Jirásek
Galina Jirásková
Peter Mlynárčik
Viktor Olejár
Juraj Šebej (co-chair)

CONTACT:

afl2026@upjs.sk
Michal Hospodár (hospodar@saske.sk)
Juraj Šebej (juraj.sebej@upjs.sk)

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