Oscar H. Ibarra - Böcker

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2014, held in London, ON, Canada, in July 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2006, held in Santa Barbara, CA, June 2006. The book presents 36 revised full papers together with 4 invited papers. All important issues in language theory are addressed including grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs, arrays; efficient text algorithms; algebraic theories for automata and languages; and more.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2006, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in August 2006. The 22 revised full papers and 7 revised poster papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. The papers cover various topics in the theory, implementation, and applications of automata and related structures.

Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. In addition, there is a growing number of software systems designed to manipulate automata, regular expressions, grammars, and related structures.This volume contains 24 regular papers from the 8th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA 2003) held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in July 2003 covering various topics in the theory, implementation, and application of automata and related structures. It also includes the abstracts of two invited lectures as well as the abstracts of the poster papers displayed during the conference.

The abstract and papers in this volume were presented at the Eighth Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2002), held on August 15-17 in Singapore. The topics cover various aspects of theoretical computer science and combinatorics related to computing. Submissionstotheconferencethisyearwereconductedelectronically. The60 papers were selected for presentation from a total of 106 submitted papers from Australia (6), Canada (3), China (6), Germany (9), India (5), Japan (11), Korea (10), Singapore (5), Taiwan (8), United States (29), and 11 other countries and regions (14). The papers were evaluated by an international program comm- tee consisting of Mikhail Atallah, Jik Chang, Tim Ting Chen, Siu-Wing Cheng, Omer Egecioglu, Fan Chung Graham, Susanne Hambrusch, Sorin Istrail, S- path Kannan, Ming-Yang Kao, Shlomo Moran, Koji Nakano, Takao Nishizeki, Steve Olariu, Gheorghe Paun, Pandu Rangan, Sartaj Sahni, Arto Salomaa, Igor Shparlinski, Janos Simon, Paul Spirakis, Chung Piaw Teo, Jan van Leeuwen, Paul Vitanyi, Peter Widmayer, and Hsu-Chun Yen. It is expected that most of the accepted papers will appear in a more complete form in scienti?c journals.In addition to the contributed papers, three invited lectures were presented by Eugene W. Myers, Sartaj Sahni, and Arto Salomaa. We wish to thank all who have made this meeting possible: the authors for submitting papers, the program committee members and external referees (listed in the proceedings) for their excellent work, and the three invited spe- ers.

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the Ninth Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC'98),heldonDecember14-16,1998inTaejon,Korea.P- viousmeetingswereheldinTokyo(1990),Taipei(1991),Nagoya (1992),HongKong(1993),Beijing(1994),Cairns(1995),Osaka (1996),andSingapore(1997). The symposium was jointly sponsored by Korea Advanced - stitute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Korea Information Science Society (KISS) to commemorate its 25th anniversary in - operationwithMinistryofInformationandCommunication,Korea InformationSocietyDevelopmentInstitute,andKoreaScienceand Engineering Foundation. Inresponsetothecallforpapers,102extendedabstractswere submitted from 21 countries. Each submitted paper was reported on byatleastfourprogramcommitteemembers,withtheassistance ofreferees,asindicatedbytherefereelistfoundintheseproce- ings. There were many more acceptable papers than there was space availableinthesymposiumschedule,andtheprogramcommittee's task was extremely di?cult.The 47 papers selected for presentation hadatotalof105authors,residentasfollows:Japan24,Germany 17,UnitedStateofAmerica15,Taiwan10,HongKongandKorea 6each,Spain5,SwitzerlandandAustralia4each,Austria,Canada, andFrance3each,ItalyandNetherlands2each,andGreece1. We thank all program committee members and their referees fortheirexcellentwork,especiallygiventhedemandingtimec- straints; they gave the symposium its distinctive character. We thank all who submitted papers for consideration: they all contributed to the high quality of the symposium. Finally,wethankallthepeoplewhoworkedhardtoputinplace the logistical arrangements of the symposium - our colleagues and our graduate students. It is their hard work that made the sym- sium possible and enjoyable.

The 13th International Conference on Implementation and Application of - tomata (CIAA 2008) was held at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, July 21–24, 2008. This volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science contains the papers that were presented at CIAA 2008, as well as the abstracts of the poster papers that were displayed during the conference. The volume also includes the - per/extended abstract of the four invited talks presented by Markus Holzer, Kai Salomaa, Mihalis Yannakakis, and Hsu-Chun Yen. The 24 regular papers were selected from 40 submissions covering various topics in the theory, implementation, and applications of automata and related structures. Each submitted paper was reviewed by at least three ProgramC- mittee members, with the assistance of external referees. The authors of the papers and posters presented in this volume come from the following co- tries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Arab Emerates, and USA. We wish to thank all who made this conference possible: the authors for s- mittingpapers,theProgramCommitteemembersandexternalreferees(listedin the proceedings) for their excellent work, and the four invited speakers. Finally, we wish to express our sincere appreciation to the sponsors, local organizers, and the editors of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science seriesand Springer, in particular Alfred Hofmann, for their help in publishing this volume in a timely manner.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2009, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA in December 2009. The 120 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 279 submissions for inclusion in the book. This volume contains topics such as algorithms and data structures, approximation algorithms, combinatorial optimization, computational biology, computational complexity, computational geometry, cryptography, experimental algorithm methodologies, graph drawing and graph algorithms, internet algorithms, online algorithms, parallel and distributed algorithms, quantum computing and randomized algorithms.