DCFS 2012 - 14th International Workshop on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems

Second Call for Papers -- DCFS 2012
14th International Workshop on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems
Braga, Portugal
July 23-25, 2012
http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/DCFS12
DCFS 2012 will be held in Braga, Portugal, on July 23-25, 2012. Braga is known as the
"Portuguese Rome" for its concentration of religious architecture,
Roman remains, beautiful churches and museums. Braga, located in the
heart of Minho, is one of Portugal’s favorite tourist destination.
The venue will be the D. Diogo de Sousa Museum of Archaeology in the city center.
The workshop will be jointly organized by University of Porto,
University of Minho, and University of Beira Interior, with the support
of IFIP Working Group 1.2.
Invited Speakers
Christos Kapoutsis (Liafa, Paris), "Minicomplexity"
Dexter Kozen (Cornell U., USA) (TBA)
André Platzer (Carnegie Mellon U., USA), "Logical Analysis of Hybrid Systems: A Completeness Answer to a Complexity Challenge"
Pedro Silva (Porto U., Portugal), "Groups and Automata: a Perfect Match"
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: April 1,2012
Notification of accepted papers: May 2, 2012
Final Version: May 15, 2012
Conference dates: July 23-25. 2012
Topics of interest
Submissions concerning the descriptional complexity of formal systems
and structures (and its applications) are invited for DCFS
2012. Topics related to all aspects of descriptional complexity, including, but not limited to:
- automata, grammars, languages and related systems, various measures and modes of
operations (e.g., determinism and nondeterminism),
- trade-offs between computational models and/or operations,
- succinctness of description of (finite) objects,
- state explosion-like phenomena,
- circuit complexity of Boolean functions and related measures,
- resource-bounded or structure-bounded environments,
- frontiers between decidability and undecidability,
- universality and reversibility,
- structural complexity,
- formal systems for applications (e.g., software
reliability, software and hardware testing, modeling of natural
languages),
- nature-motivated (bio-inspired) architectures and
unconventional models of computing,
- Kolmogorov complexity.
Submissions
Papers presenting original contributions concerning the topics of the conference are being
sought. Authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 12 pages
in LNCS-style LaTeX2e (Available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers must be in
English and provide sufficient details to allow the program committee
to assess their merits. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must
be put into an appendix to be read by the program committee members at
their discretion. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or
workshops with published proceedings is not allowed.
Papers will be submitted electronically in PDF, using the EasyChair system. Use
the following link for submission:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcfs201...
The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series and will be available at the
workshop. As in previous years, a special journal issue with full
versions of selected papers will be devoted to DCFS 2012.
Program Commitee
Cezar Câmpeanu (Charlottetown, Canada)
Michael Domaratzki (Winnipeg, Canada)
Zoltan Ésik (Szeged, Hungary)
Viliam Geffert (Košice, Slovakia)
Markus Holzer (Giessen, Germany)
Galina Jirásková (Košice, Slovakia)
Jarkko Kari (Turku Finland)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen, Germany) (co-chair)
Maurice Margenstern (Metz, France)
Carlo Mereghetti (Milano, Italy)
Nelma Moreira (Porto, Portugal) (co-chair)
Giovanni Pighizzini (Milano, Italy)
Rogério Reis (Porto, Portugal) (co-chair)
António Restivo (Palermo, Italy)
Kai Salomaa (Kingston, ON, Canada)
Jeffrey O. Shallit (Waterloo, ON, Canada)
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg, Germany)
György Vaszil (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Sheng Yu (London, ON, Canada)
Steering Committee
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Budapest, Hungary)
Jürgen Dassow (Magdeburg, Germany)
Helmut Jürgensen (Potsdam, Germany; London, ON, Canada)
Hing Leung (Las Cruces, New Mexico)
Giovanni Pighizzini (Milano, Italy) (Chair)
Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt, Germany)
Organizing Committee
Sabine Broda (U.Porto)
Maria João Frade (U. Minho)
Nelma Moreira (U.Porto)
Rogério Reis (U.Porto)
Simão Sousa (U. Beira Interior)
For a small poster for download and display:
http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/DCFS12/resources/DCFS.pdf
CONTACT
Postal address:
DCFS 2012
DCC-FCUP
Rua do Campo Alegre, 1021-1055
4169-007 Porto,
Portugal
Email: dcfs12-AT-dcc.fc.up.pt