This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th IFIP WG 1.02 International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2026, held in Kingston, ON, Canada, during August 9–11, 2026.The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They focus on the Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars, and Related Structures, Formal Descriptions and Software Reliability.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th IFIP WG 1.02 International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2026, held in Kingston, ON, Canada, during August 9–11, 2026.The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They focus on the Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars, and Related Structures, Formal Descriptions and Software Reliability.

his book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2016, held in Bucharest, Romania, in July 2016. The 13 full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions.Descriptional Complexity is a field in Computer Science that deals with the size of all kind of objects that occur in computational models, such as Turing Machines, finte automata, grammars, splicing systems and others. The topics of this conference are related to all aspects of descriptional complexity.

his book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2016, held in Bucharest, Romania, in July 2016. The 13 full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions.Descriptional Complexity is a field in Computer Science that deals with the size of all kind of objects that occur in computational models, such as Turing Machines, finte automata, grammars, splicing systems and others. The topics of this conference are related to all aspects of descriptional complexity. 

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2017, held in Milano, Italy, in July 2017. The 20 full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions.Descriptional Complexity is a field in Computer Science that deals with the size of all kinds of objects that occur in computational models, such as turing machines, finite automata, grammars, splicing systems and others. The topics of this conference are related to all aspects of descriptional complexity.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2017, held in Milano, Italy, in July 2017. The 20 full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions.Descriptional Complexity is a field in Computer Science that deals with the size of all kinds of objects that occur in computational models, such as turing machines, finite automata, grammars, splicing systems and others. The topics of this conference are related to all aspects of descriptional complexity.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on  Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2018, held in  Charlottetown, PE, Canada, in July/August 2018.The 23 regular papers  presented in this book together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 initial submissions. The topics of the papers include state complexity of automata, implementations of automata and experiments, enhanced regular expressions, and complexity analysis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th IFIP WG 1.02 International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2026, held in Kingston, ON, Canada, during August 9–11, 2026.The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They focus on the Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars, and Related Structures, Formal Descriptions and Software Reliability.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th IFIP WG 1.02 International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2026, held in Kingston, ON, Canada, during August 9–11, 2026.The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They focus on the Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars, and Related Structures, Formal Descriptions and Software Reliability.

his book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2016, held in Bucharest, Romania, in July 2016. The 13 full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions.Descriptional Complexity is a field in Computer Science that deals with the size of all kind of objects that occur in computational models, such as Turing Machines, finte automata, grammars, splicing systems and others. The topics of this conference are related to all aspects of descriptional complexity.

his book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2016, held in Bucharest, Romania, in July 2016. The 13 full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions.Descriptional Complexity is a field in Computer Science that deals with the size of all kind of objects that occur in computational models, such as Turing Machines, finte automata, grammars, splicing systems and others. The topics of this conference are related to all aspects of descriptional complexity. 

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2017, held in Milano, Italy, in July 2017. The 20 full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions.Descriptional Complexity is a field in Computer Science that deals with the size of all kinds of objects that occur in computational models, such as turing machines, finite automata, grammars, splicing systems and others. The topics of this conference are related to all aspects of descriptional complexity.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2017, held in Milano, Italy, in July 2017. The 20 full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions.Descriptional Complexity is a field in Computer Science that deals with the size of all kinds of objects that occur in computational models, such as turing machines, finite automata, grammars, splicing systems and others. The topics of this conference are related to all aspects of descriptional complexity.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on  Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2018, held in  Charlottetown, PE, Canada, in July/August 2018.The 23 regular papers  presented in this book together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 initial submissions. The topics of the papers include state complexity of automata, implementations of automata and experiments, enhanced regular expressions, and complexity analysis.