LATA 2020 & 2021
 
Milan, Italy
 
March 1-5, 2021
 
Co-organized by:
           
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
University of Milano-Bicocca
 
and
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice
Brussels/London
 
https://irdta.eu/lata2020-2021/
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AIMS:
 
LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2020 & 2021 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.
 
LATA 2020 & 2021 will merge the scheduled program for LATA 2020, which could not take place because of the Covid-19 crisis, with a new series of papers submitted on this occasion.
 
VENUE:
 
LATA 2020 & 2021 will be held in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe. The venue will be:
 
University of Milano-Bicocca
Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 22
Building U6
Aula Mario Martini (Aula U6-04)
Milan
 
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, inductive 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 2020 & 2021 will consist of:
 
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
Eric Allender (Rutgers University), The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization
 
Laure Daviaud (City, University of London), About Decision Problems for Weighted Automata
 
Christoph Haase (University College London), Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata
 
Artur Jeż (University of Wrocław), Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data
 
Jean-Éric Pin (CNRS), How to Prove that a Language Is Regular or Star-free?
 
Thomas Place (University of Bordeaux), Deciding Classes of Regular Languages: A Language Theoretic Point of View
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 
Jorge Almeida (University of Porto, PT)
Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, DE)
Alessandro Barenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
Marie-Pierre Béal (University of Paris-Est, FR)
Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST, DZ)
Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL)
Flavio Corradini (University of Camerino, IT)
Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR)
Laurent Doyen (ENS Paris-Saclay, FR)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, DE)
Rudolf Freund (Technical University of Vienna, AT)
Paweł Gawrychowski (University of Wrocław, PL)
Amélie Gheerbrant (Paris Diderot University, FR)
Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI)
Lane A. Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, US)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI)
Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, US)
Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE)
Parthasarathy Madhusudan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)
Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE)
Nicolas Markey (IRISA, Rennes, FR)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, RO)
Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, US)
Gennaro Parlato (University of Molise, IT)
Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR)
Nir Piterman (Chalmers University of Technology, SE)
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, US)
Antonio Restivo (University of Palermo, IT)
Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL)
Kai Salomaa (Queen’s University, CA)
Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE)
William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA)
Jiří Srba (Aalborg University, DK)
Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
Benjamin Steinberg (City University of New York, US)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG)
Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, NL)
Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Alberto Leporati (Milan, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (Milan)
Dana Shapira (Ariel)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Bianca Truthe (Giessen)
Claudio Zandron (Milan, co-chair)
 
SUBMISSIONS:
 
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.
 
Upload submissions to:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata20202021
 
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 Information and Computation (Elsevier, 2019 JCR impact factor: 0.872) 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.
 
REGISTRATION:
 
The registration form can be found at:
 
https://irdta.eu/lata2020-2021/registration/
 
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
Paper submission: October 19, 2020
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 23, 2020
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 30, 2020
Early registration: November 30, 2020
Late registration: February 15, 2021
Submission to the journal special issue: June 5, 2021
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david (at) irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
 
IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London
  

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