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Please=2C forward the announcement to whoever may be interested in it=2E= Thanks=2E ********************************************************************* Call for Papers 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICA= TIONS (LATA 2009) Tarragona=2C Spain=2C April 2-8=2C 2009 http=3A//grammars=2Egrlmc=2Ecom/LATA2009/ ********************************************************************* AIMS=3A LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its appl= ications=2E As linked to the International PhD School in Formal Language= s and Applications that was developed at the host institute in the perio= d 2002-2006=2C LATA 2009 will reserve significant room for young scholar= s at the beginning of their career=2E It will aim at attracting contribu= tions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinform= atics=2C systems biology=2C language technology=2C artificial intelligen= ce=2C etc=2E)=2E SCOPE=3A Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include=2C but are not = limited to=3A - algebraic language theory - algorithms on automata and words - automata and logic - automata for system analysis and programme verification - automata=2C concurrency and Petri nets - biomolecular nanotechnology - cellular automata - circuits and networks - combinatorics on words - computability - computational=2C descriptional=2C communication and parameterized comp= lexity - data and image compression - decidability questions on words and languages - digital libraries - DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing - document engineering - extended automata - foundations of finite state technology - fuzzy and rough languages - grammars (Chomsky hierarchy=2C contextual=2C multidimensional=2C unifi= cation=2C categorial=2C etc=2E) - grammars and automata architectures - grammatical inference and algorithmic learning - graphs and graph transformation - language varieties and semigroups - language-based cryptography - language-theoretic foundations of natural language processing=2C artif= icial intelligence and artificial life - mathematical evolutionary genomics - parsing - patterns and codes - power series - quantum=2C chemical and optical computing - regulated rewriting - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinform= atics - symbolic dynamics - symbolic neural networks - term rewriting - text algorithms - text retrieval=2C pattern matching and pattern recognition - transducers - trees=2C tree languages and tree machines - weighted machines STRUCTURE=3A LATA 2009 will consist of=3A - 3 invited talks (to be announced in the second call for papers) - 2 invited tutorials (to be announced in the second call for papers) - refereed contributions - open sessions for discussion in specific subfields or on professional = issues (if requested by the participants) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE=3A Parosh Abdulla (Uppsala) Stefania Bandini (Milano) Stephen Bloom (Hoboken) John Brzozowski (Waterloo) Maxime Crochemore (London) Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg) Michael Domaratzki (Winnipeg) Henning Fernau (Trier) Rusins Freivalds (Riga) Vesa Halava (Turku) Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich) Lucian Ilie (London=2C Canada) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto) Aravind Joshi (Philadelphia) Juhani Karhumaki (Turku) Jarkko Kari (Turku) Claude Kirchner (Bordeaux) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle) Kamala Krithivasan (Chennai) Martin Kutrib (Giessen) Andrzej Lingas (Lund) Aldo de Luca (Napoli) Rupak Majumdar (Los Angeles) Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona =26 Brussels=2C chair) Joachim Niehren (Villeneuve d=27Ascq) Antonio Restivo (Palermo) Joerg Rothe (Duesseldorf) Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw) Philippe Schnoebelen (Cachan) Thomas Schwentick (Dortmund) Helmut Seidl (Muenchen) Alan Selman (Buffalo) Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo) Frank Stephan (Singapore) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE=3A Madalina Barbaiani Gemma Bel-Enguix Cristina Bibire Adrian-Horia Dediu Szilard-Zsolt Fazekas Alexander Krassovitskiy Guangwu Liu Carlos Martin-Vide (chair) Robert Mercas Catalin-Ionut Tirnauca Bianca Truthe Sherzod Turaev Florentina-Lilica Voicu SUBMISSIONS=3A Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished= research=2E Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages and should = be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag=27s LN= CS series (see http=3A//www=2Espringer=2Ecom/computer/lncs/lncs+authors=3F= SGWID=3D0-40209-0-0-0)=2E Submissions have to be uploaded at=3A http=3A//www=2Eeasychair=2Eorg/conferences/=3Fconf=3Dlata2009 PUBLICATION=3A A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be= available by the time of the conference=2E A refereed volume of extende= d versions of selected papers will be published after it as a special is= sue of a major journal=2E (This was Information and Computation for LATA= 2007 and LATA 2008=2E) REGISTRATION=3A The period for registration will be open since September 1=2C 2008 to Ap= ril 2=2C 2009=2E The registration form can be found at the website of th= e conference=3A http=3A//grammars=2Egrlmc=2Ecom/LATA2009/ Early registration fees=3A 450 euros Early registration fees (PhD students)=3A 225 euros Registration fees=3A 540 euros Registration fees (PhD students)=3A 270 euros At least one author per paper should register=2E Papers that do not have= a registered author by December 31=2C 2008 will be excluded from the pr= oceedings=2E Fees comprise free access to all sessions=2C one copy of the proceedings= volume=2C and coffee breaks=2E For the participation in the full-day ex= cursion and conference lunch on Sunday April 5=2C the amount of 70 euros= is to be added to the fees above=3A accompanying persons are welcome at= the same rate=2E PAYMENT=3A Early registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before December 31= =2C 2008 to the conference account at Open Bank (Plaza Manuel Gomez More= no 2=2C 28020 Madrid=2C Spain)=3A IBAN=3A ES1300730100510403506598 - Swi= ft code=3A OPENESMMXXX (account holder=3A LATA 2009 =96 Carlos Martin-Vi= de)=2E (Non-early) registration fees can be paid either by bank transfer to the= same account or in cash on site=2E Besides paying the registration fees=2C it is required to fill in the re= gistration form at the website of the conference=2E A receipt for the pa= yment will be provided on site=2E FUNDING=3A Up to 20 grants covering partial-board accommodation will be available f= or nonlocal PhD students=2E To apply=2C candidates must e-mail their CV = together with a copy of the document proving their present status as a P= hD student=2E IMPORTANT DATES=3A Paper submission=3A October 22=2C 2008 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection=3A December 10=2C 2008 Application for funding (PhD students)=3A December 15=2C 2008 Notification of funding acceptance or rejection=3A December 19=2C 2008 Final version of the paper for the proceedings=3A December 24=2C 2008 Early registration=3A December 31=2C 2008 Starting of the conference=3A April 2=2C 2009 Submission to the journal special issue=3A June 22=2C 2009 FURTHER INFORMATION=3A carlos=2Emartin=40urv=2Ecat ADDRESS=3A LATA 2009 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Plaza Imperial Tarraco=2C 1 43005 Tarragona=2C Spain Phone=3A +34-977-559543 Fax=3A +34-977-559597