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DCFS 2021 - Call for Papers


23rd International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems


June 21 -- 24, 2021, Seoul, South Korea


http://toc.yonsei.ac.kr/dcfs2021/

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The conference is organized by the Department of Computer Science of Yonsei University,

and by the IFIP Working Group 1.02 "Descriptional Complexity".



IMPORTANT DATES


- Paper submission deadline: Feb. 15, 2021

- Author notification: March 20, 2021

- Camera-ready deadline: April 1, 2021

- Conference: June 21 -- 24, 2021



TOPICS


Submissions concerning the descriptional complexity of formal systems

and structures (and its applications) are invited for DCFS 2021.

Original papers are sought in all aspects of descriptional complexity,

topics include, but are not limited to:


- Automata, grammars, languages and other formal systems; various modes

of operations and complexity measures.

- Succinctness of description of objects, state-explosion-like phenomena.

- Circuit complexity of Boolean functions and related measures.

- Size complexity of formal systems.

- Structural complexity of formal systems.

- Trade-offs between computational models and mode of operation.

- Applications of formal systems -- for instance in software and

hardware testing, in dialogue systems, in systems modeling

or in modeling natural languages -- and their complexity constraints.

- Co-operating formal systems.

- Size or structural complexity of formal systems for modeling

natural languages.

- Complexity aspects related to the combinatorics of words.

- Descriptional complexity in resource-bounded or structure-bounded

environments.

- Structural complexity as related to descriptional complexity.

- Frontiers between decidability and undecidability.

- Universality and reversibility.

- Nature-motivated (bio-inspired) architectures and unconventional models

of computing.

- Blum Static (Kolmogorov/Chaitin) complexity, algorithmic information.



PROGRAM COMMITTEE


Johanna Björklund, University of Umeå, Sweden

Cezar Câmpeanu, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

Da-Jung Cho, University of Kassel, Germany

Zoltán Fülöp, University of Szeged, Hungary

Pawel Gawrychowski, University of Wrocław, Poland

Yo-Sub Han, Yonsei University, South Korea (co-chair)

Galina Jirásková, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia

Christos Kapoutsis, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar

Sang-Ki Ko, Kangwon National University, South Korea (co-chair)

Stavros Konstantinidis, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada

Martin Kutrib, University of Giessen, Germany

Ian McQuillan, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Timothy Ng, University of Chicago, USA

Alexander Okhotin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Andrei Păun, University of Bucharest, Romania

Giovanni Pighizzini, University of Milan, Italy

Daniel Průša, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

Narad Rampersad, University of Winnipeg, Canada

Rogério Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Michel Rigo, University of Liège, Belgium

Kai Salomaa, Queen's University, Canada

Juraj Šebej, P. J. Šafárik University, Slovakia

György Vaszil, University of Debrecen, Hungary




PAPER SUBMISSION


Submissions to DCFS must not exceed 12 pages in Springer-Verlag's

Lecture Notes style including bibliography. 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. Simultaneous submissions

of papers to any other conference with published proceedings or submitting

previously published papers is not allowed. Only electronic submissions

in the PDF format are accepted. Information about the submission

procedure will be available on the conference web page in due time.

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series

Lecture Notes in Computer Science. In addition, a special issue

of International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science

will be devoted to revised and extended versions of selected papers of the conference.



CONTACT


Web: http://toc.yonsei.ac.kr/dcfs2021/

Email: dcfs2021@gmail.com