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Automata and Formal Languages, AFL2014
14th International Conference
Szeged, May 27--29, 2014.
http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/afl2014

*Announcement*
The AFL series, initiated by the late Professor Istv\'an
Pe\'ak in 1980, has a long tradition. The AFL conferences
cover all aspects of automata and formal languages,
including theory and applications.

Topics of interest 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, relations to 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*
Arnaud Carayol (Marne-la-Vall\'ee)
Markus Holzer (Giessen)
Christof L\"oding (Aachen)
Sebastian Maneth (Edinburgh)

*Program Committee*
Marie-Pierre B\'eal (Marne-la-Vall\'ee)
Symeon Bozapalidis (Thessaloniki)
Erzs\'ebet Csuhaj-Varj\'u (Budapest)
J\"urgen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Volker Diekert (Stuttgart)
P\'al D\"om\"osi (Debrecen, Ny\'\i regyh\'aza)
Frank Drewes (Umea)
Zolt\'an \'Esik (Szeged, chair)
Zolt\'an F\"ul\"op (Szeged, co-chair)
Viliam Geffert (Kosice)
Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
Masami Ito (Kyoto)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Kamal Lodaya (Chennai)
Markus Lohrey (Siegen)
Andreas Maletti (Stuttgart)
Alexander Okhotin (Turku)
Friedrich Otto (Kassel)
Giovanni Pighizzini (Milan)
Libor Pol\'ak (Brno)
Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
Kai Salomaa (Kingston, ON, Canada)
Pedro V. Silva (Porto)
Gy\"orgy Vaszil (Debrecen)
Pascal Weil (Bordeaux)
Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei)

*Important dates*
Paper submission deadline: *March 14, 2014.*
Author notification: *April 22, 2014.*
Camera-ready deadline: *May 5, 2014.*
Conference: *May 27--29, 2014.*

*Submission guidelines*
Submissions to AFL2014 must not exceed 15 pages
(in EPTCS style and 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 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 in the EPTCS series.

A special issue of the
*International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science*
containing expanded versions of selected papers will
be published after the conference.

*Contact*
Zolt\'an \'Esik: ze@inf.u-szeged.hu
or
Zolt\'an F\"ul\"op: fulop@inf.u-szeged.hu

The conference is organized by the Department of Foundations
of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Informatics,
University of Szeged, Hungary.