16-18 July 2007
Prague, Czech Republic
*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CIAA 2007 12th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata July 16-18, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.stringology.org/event/CIAA2007 *************************************************************************** The 12th edition of the CIAA will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on July 16-18, 2007. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. We have a strong scientific program that includes paper presentations, posters, as well as four invited lectures: INVITED TALKS: * Gheorghe Paun (Romanian Academy, Romania) "Spiking neural P systems used as acceptors and transducers" * Moshe Vardi (Rice University, USA) "Linear-Time Model Checking: Automata Theory in Practice" * Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, South Africa; Sagantec, USA) "Automata applications in chip-design software" * Michael Riley (Google, Inc., USA) "OpenFst: a General and Efficient Weighted Finite-State Transducer Library" REGULAR PAPERS: * Mikhail Volkov. Synchronizing automata preserving a chain of partial orders * Margareta Ackerman and Jeffrey Shallit. Efficient Enumeration of Regular Languages * Massimiliano Goldwurm and Roberto Radicioni. Average value and variance of pattern statistics in rational models * Joni Pirnot and Natasha Jonoska. Finite State Automata Representing Two-Dimensional Dubshifts * Shmuel Tomi Klein and Miri Kopel Ben-Nissan. Accelerating Boyer Moore Searches on Binary Texts * Maxime Crochemore, Chiara Epifanio, Alessandra Gabriele and Filippo Mignosi. On the Suffix Automaton with mismatches * Michael Holtmann and Christof Lding. Memory Reduction for Strategies in Infinite Games * George Rahonis and Manfred Droste. Weighted automata and weighted logics with discounting * Frantisek Mraz, Martin Platek and Friedrich Otto. A Natural Measure for The Degree of Nondeterminism of Context-free Languages * Kai Salomaa, Sheng Yu and Jinfeng Zan. Deterministic Caterpillar Expressions * Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher. Regulated Nondeterminism in Pushdown Automata * Didier Caucal, Jurek Czyzowicz, Wojciech Fraczak and Wojciech Rytter. Efficient Computation of Throughput Values of Context-Free Languages * Claus Brabrand, Robert Giegerich and Anders Mller. Analyzing Ambiguity of Context-Free Grammars * Magnus Steinby and Catalin Ionut Tirnauca. Syntax-Directed Translations and Quasi-Alphabetic Tree Bimorphisms * Marcella Anselmo, dora giammarresi and maria Madonia. Tiling Automaton: a Computational Model for Recognizable Two-dimensional Languages * Johanna Hgberg, Andreas Maletti and Jonathan May. Backward and Forward Bisimulation Minimisation of Tree Automata * Jean-Marc Champarnaud, Franck Guingne and Jacques Farr. Reducing acyclic cover transducers * Joachim Klein and Christel Baier. On-the-fly Stuttering in the Construction of Deterministic omega-Automata * Mehryar Mohri, Pedro Moreno and Eugene Weinstein. Factor Automata of Automata and Applications * Gregory Kucherov, Laurent No and Mikhail Roytberg. Subset seed automaton * Hannu Peltola and Jorma Tarhio. On String Matching in Chunked Texts * Francois Barthelemy. Multi-Grain Relations * Rafael Carrasco, Jan Daciuk and Mikel Forcada. An implementation of deterministic tree automata minimization POSTERS: * Michal Voracek, Ladislav Vagner, Costas Iliopoulos and M. Sohel Rahman. The Constrained Longest Common Subsequence Problem for Degenerate Strings * Olivier Blanc, Matthieu Constant and Patrick Watrin. A Finite-State Super-Chunker * Anssi Yli-Jyr and Kimmo Koskenniemi. A New Method for Compiling Parallel Replacement Rules * Frdrique Bassino, Julien David and Cyril Nicaud. REGAL: a library to randomly and exhausively generate automata * Jan Supol. Significant Subpatterns Matching * B Klunder. Finite automata accepting star-connected languages * Clemens Marschner. Efficiently Matching With Local Grammars Using Prefix Overlay Transducers REGISTRATION: Registration is open on the web site: http://www.stringology.org/event/CIAA2007 Early registration deadline is approaching: June 17, 2007 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marie-Pierre Beal (Marne-la-Vallee, France) Cristian Calude (Auckland, New Zealand) Jean-Marc Champarnaud (Rouen, France) Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest, Hungary) Jurgen Dassow (Magdeburg, Germany) Jacques Farre (Nice, France) Jozef Gruska (Brno, Czech Republic) Tero Harju (Turku, Finland) Jan Holub, Co-Chair (Prague, Czech Republic) Markus Holzer (Munchen, Germany) Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich, Switzerland) Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, USA) Masami Ito (Kyoto, Japan) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, Japan) Juhani Karhumaki (Turku, Finland) Werner Kuich (Vienna, Austria) Denis Maurel (Tours, France) Giancarlo Mauri (Milano, Italy) Borivoj Melichar, Co-Chair (Prague, Czech Republic) Mehryar Mohri (New York, USA) Gheorghe Paun (Bucharest, Romania) Giovanni Pighizzini (Milano, Italy) Jean-Eric Pin (Paris, France) Bala Ravikumar (Sonoma, USA) Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw, Poland) Kai Salomaa (Kingston, Canada) Pierluigi San Pietro (Milano, Italy) Bow-Yaw Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) Bruce Watson (Pretoria, South Africa) Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei, Taiwan) Sheng Yu (London, Canada) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Miroslav Balik, Co-Chair (Prague, Czech Republic) Jan Holub, Co-Chair (Prague, Czech Republic) Michal Voracek (Prague, Czech Republic) Ladislav Vagner (Prague, Czech Republic) Jan Zdarek (Prague, Czech Republic) For more information about the CIAA conferences visit http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/ciaa/