Call for Papers -- DLT 2018
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22nd International Conference on Developments in Language Theory
Tokyo, Japan
Sept. 10-14, 2018
http://dlt2018.uec.ac.jp/

Deadline for submissions: May 7th, 2018 (extended)
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The 22nd International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2018) will take place in Tokyo, Japan on Sept. 10-14, 2018.

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.

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 30th, 2018
Notification to authors: June 1st, 2018
Final Version : June 20th, 2018
DLT 2018 : Sept. 10-14th, 2018

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished
research. The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Simultaneous submission to journals
or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.
Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should follow the LNCS-style
LaTeX2e (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). 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:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt2018

INVITED SPEAKERS
- Tomohiro I (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Bakhadyr Khoussainov (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
- Dominique Perrin (LIGM, Universit? Paris-Est, France)
- Marinella Sciortino (Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)
- Andrew Winslow (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, USA)
- Alexander Okhotin (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Marie-Pierre Beal (Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e, France)
- Thomas Colcombet (Universit? Paris Diderot, France)
- Kenji Hashimoto (Nagoya University, Japan)
- Juraj Hromkovic (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Galina Jiraskova (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
- Nata?a Jonoska (University of South Florida, USA)
- Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
- Sang-Ki Ko (Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Republic of Korea)
- Martin Kutrib (Universit?t Gie?en, Germany)
- Sylvain Lombardy (Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, France)
- Florin Manea (Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel, Germany)
- Timothy Ng (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Giovanni Pighizzini (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
- Svetlana Puzynina (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia)
- Michel Rigo (University of Li?ge, Belgium)
- Markus Schmid (Universit?t Trier, Germany)
- Shinnosuke Seki (University of Electro-Communications, Japan, Chair)
- Arseny Shur (Ural State University, Russia)
- Michal Skrzypczak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
Web: http://dlt2018.uec.ac.jp/

E-mail: s.seki@uec.ac.jp