The  25th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2021) will take place in Porto, Portugal on August 16-20, 2021.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic,research, and industrial community who have an interest in formal languages,automata theory, and related areas.

COVID-19: We will monitor the global travel situation and accordingly consider the conditions the conference will be held.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research.  Simultaneous submission tojournalsor other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.

Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should follow the LNCS-style LaTeX2e (available at https://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

All proofs omitted due to space constraints should be given in an appendix or made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic  preprint. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt2021

Topics

Typical topics include, but are not limited to,

• grammars,
• acceptors and transducers for words,
• trees and graphs,
• algebraic theories of automata;
• algorithmic, combinatorial and algebraic properties of words andlanguages;
• variable length codes; symbolic dynamics;
• cellular automata;
• polyominoes and multidimensional patterns;
• decidability questions;
• image manipulation and compression;
• efficient text algorithms;
• relationships to cryptography, concurrency, complexity theory and logic;
• bio-inspired computing;
• quantum computing.

Committees

Program Committee

• Srecko Brlek (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
• Szilárd Fazekas (Akita University, Japan)
• Dora Giammarresi (Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy)
• Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, South Korea)
• Juraj Hromkovic (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
• Oscar Ibarra (University of California, USA)
• Natasha  Jonoska (University of South Florida)
• Christos Kapoutsis (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar)
• Jarkko Kari, (University of Turku, Finland)
• Martin Kutrib (Universität Giessen, Germany)
• Andreas Maletti (University of Leipzig)
• Tomáš Masopust (The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia)
• Ian McQuillan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
• Carlo Mereghetti (University of Milano, Italy)
• Nelma Moreira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) co-chair
• Giovanni Pighizzini (University of Milano, Italy)
• Rogério Reis (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) co-chair
• Michael Rigo (University of Liége, Belgium)
• Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Canada)
• Marinella Sciortino (Università di Palermo, Italy)
• Philippe Schnoebelen (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
• Helmut Seidl (Technical University Munich, Germany)
• Shinnosuke Seki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
• Jeffrey Shallit (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• György Vaszil (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
• Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
• Marc Zeitoun (University of Bordeaux, France)

Organizing committee

• Sabine Broda
• Bruno Loff
• António Machiavelo
• Inês Maia (Pé de Cabra Lda)
• Nelma Moreira 
• Rogério Reis 
• Shinnosuke Seki

Venue

The conference will be held in Porto, Portugal

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Rogério Reis