A shuttle bus will depart from Maxim Design Hotel to Bar-Ilan campus on April 9, 07:55.

Important dates (all at 23:59h CET)

November 17, 2017	Paper submission (closing at 23:59h, CET)
November 24, 2017	Paper submission - EXTENDED
December 24, 2017	Notification of paper acceptance or rejection
January 4, 2018	Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings
January 4, 2018	Early registration
March 25, 2018	Late registration
July 12, 2018	Submission to the journal special issue
July 26, 2018	Submission to the journal special issue - EXTENDED

Publications

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of the journal Information and Computation (Elsevier, 2016 JCR impact factor: 1.05) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2018, available: http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319773124

Acknowledgments

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Organised by

• Department of Computer Science,
  Bar-Ilan University and
  
• Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC),
  Rovira i Virgili University

Aims

LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field organized by Rovira i Virgili University since 2002, LATA 2018 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.

Venue

LATA 2018 will take place in Ramat Gan, in the district of Tel Aviv and home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges. The venue will be the Faculty of Exact Sciences of Bar-Ilan University.

Scope

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

• algebraic language theory
• algorithms for semi-structured data mining
• algorithms on automata and words
• automata and logic
• automata for system analysis and programme verification
• automata networks
• automatic structures
• codes
• combinatorics on words
• computational complexity
• concurrency and Petri nets
• data and image compression
• descriptional complexity
• foundations of finite state technology
• foundations of XML
• grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
• grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
• graphs and graph transformation
• language varieties and semigroups
• language-based cryptography
• mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies
• parallel and regulated rewriting
• parsing
• patterns
• power series
• string processing algorithms
• symbolic dynamics
• term rewriting
• transducers
• trees, tree languages and tree automata
• weighted automata

Structure

LATA 2018 will consist of

• invited talks
• peer-reviewed contributions

Submission

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.
Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=silata2018ic

Registration