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These proceedings contain the papers that were presented at the 5th International
Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA
2011), held in Tarragona, Spain, during May 26–31, 2011.
The scope of LATA is rather broad, including: algebraic language theory;
algorithms for semi-structured data mining; algorithms on automata and words;
automata and logic; automata for system analysis and program verification; automata,
concurrency and Petri nets; cellular automata; combinatorics on words;
computability; computational complexity; computational linguistics; data and
image compression; decidability questions on words and languages; descriptional
complexity; DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing; document engineering;
foundations of finite-state technology; fuzzy and rough languages; grammars
(Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial,
etc.); grammars and automata architectures; grammatical inference and algorithmic
learning; graphs and graph transformation; language varieties and semigroups;
language-based cryptography; language-theoretic foundations of artificial
intelligence and artificial life; neural networks; parallel and regulated rewriting;
parsing; pattern recognition; patterns and codes; power series; quantum, chemical
and optical computing; semantics; string and combinatorial issues in computational
biology and bioinformatics; string processing algorithms; symbolic
dynamics; term rewriting; transducers; trees, tree languages and tree machines;
and weighted machines.
LATA 2011 received 91 submissions. Each one was reviewed by four Program
Committee members, many of whom consulted with external referees. After a
thorough and lively discussion phase, the committee decided to accept 36 papers
(which represents an acceptance rate of 39.56%). The conference program also
included three invited talks and two invited tutorials. Part of the success in
the management of such a large number of submissions is due to the excellent
facilities provided by the EasyChair conference management system.
We would like to thank all invited speakers and authors for their contributions,
the Program Committee and the reviewers for their cooperation, and
Springer for its very professional publishing work. |
