7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

DEVELOPMENTS IN LANGUAGE THEORY

 July 7 - 11, 2003, Szeged, Hungary

CALL FOR PAPERS


Program Committee:

S. Bozapalidis (Thessaloniki)
Ch. Choffrut (Paris)
V. Diekert (Stuttgart)
Z. Ésik (Szeged, co-chair)
Z. Fülöp (Szeged, co-chair)
H. J. Hoogeboom (Leiden)
M. Ito (Kyoto)
J. Karhumäki (Turku)
W. Kuich (Vienna)
A. Restivo (Palermo)
B. Rovan (Bratislava)
A. Salomaa (Turku)
W. Thomas (Aachen)
Sheng Yu (London, ON)

Invited speakers:

A. Bertoni (Milan)
J. Esparza (Edinburgh)
F. Gécseg (Szeged)
F. Otto (Kassel)
J.-E. Pin (Paris)
W. Plandowski (Warsaw)
H. Vollmer (Hannover)

Organizing Committee:

Z. Alexin (Szeged)
Z. Ésik (Szeged, co-chair)
Z. Fülöp (Szeged, co-chair)
Zs. Gazdag (Szeged)
É. Gombás (Szeged)
Z. L. Németh (Szeged)

Important Dates:
Submission: February 24, 2003
Notification: March 24, 2003
Final papers: April 14, 2003

The 7th Interantional Conference Developments in Language Theory is organized by the Department of Informatics of the University of Szeged, Hungary. The conference is also under the auspices of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. Papers presenting original contributions in any area of language and automata theory are being sought. Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other conference that has proceedings are not allowed.

Topics of interest are (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, DNA computing, quantum computing, cryptography, concurrency.

Submissions: Authors are invited to submit their papers (in English; up to 12 pages; if appropriate, proofs should be attached in an appendix) using the DLT 03 webpage

www.inf.u-szeged.hu/informatika/dlt03/

Submissions are to be made by February 24, 2003.

Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series and will be available at the meeting.

A special issue of TCS containing selected papers will be published after the conference.

Conference address:

DLT 03
c/o Prof. Zoltán Ésik or Prof. Zoltán Fülöp
Department of Informatics
University of Szeged
H-6701, Szeged, P.O.B. 652, Hungary
e-mail: dlt03@inf.u-szeged.hu

phone:++36-62-544-289 or ++36-62-544-302
fax:  ++36-62-544-895 or ++36-62-546-397