Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2007

Program

Registration: Monday 19:00 – 21:00 and Tuesday 8:00 – 9:00
Opening: Tuesday 8:45 – 9:00

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00-10:00 Information Distance and Applications
Ming Li
Descriptional Complexity of Nondeterministic Finite Automata
Kai Salomaa
Quantitative Generalizations of Languages
Thomas Henzinger
Finite Automata and the Writing of Numbers
Jacques Sakarovitch
10:00-10:30 Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
10:30-11:00 Commutation of Binary Factorial Languages
Anna Frid
What Do We Know about Language Equations?
Michal Kunc
On First-Order Fragments for Words and Mazurkiewicz Traces
Volker Diekert, Manfred Kufleitner
Reduced languages as ω-generators
Sandrine Julia, Vinh Duc Tran
11:00-11:30 State Complexity of Union and Intersection of Finite Languages
Yo-Sub Han, Kai Salomaa
Descriptional Complexity of Bounded Context-Free Languages
Andreas Malcher, Giovanni Pighizzini
11:30-12:00 Conjunctive grammars can generate non-regular unary languages
Artur Jeż
The dynamics of cellular automata in shift-invariant topologies
Laurent Bienvenu, Mathieu Sablik
From Determinism to Non-determinism in Recognizable Twodimensional Languages
Marcella Anselmo, Dora Giammarresi, Maria Madonia
Inapproximability of Nondeterministic State and Transition Complexity Assuming P≠NP
Hermann Gruber, Markus Holzer
12:00-13:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
13:30-14:00 Two Element Unavoidable Sets of Partial Words
Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Naomi Brownstein, Justin Palumbo
Hairpin Finite Automata
Henning Bordihn, Markus Holzer, Martin Kutrib
Deterministic Blow-ups of Minimal Nondeterministic Finite Automata over a Fixed Alphabet
Jozef Jirásek, Galina Jirásková, Alexander Szabari
2-Visibly Pushdown Automata
Dario Carotenuto, Aniello Murano, Adriano Peron
14:00-14:30 The Unambiguity of Segmented Morphisms
Dominik Freydenberger, Daniel Reidenbach
Coding Partitions: Regularity, Maximality and Global Ambiguity
Marie-Pierre Béal, Fabio Burderi, Antonio Restivo
Finite Automata on Unranked and Unordered DAGs
Lutz Priese
An Extension of Newton's Method to ω-Continuous Semirings
Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, Michael Luttenberger
14:30-15:00 Avoiding Approximate Squares
Dalia Krieger, Pascal Ochem, Narad Rampersad, Jeffrey Shallit
An efficient computation of the equation K-automaton of a regular K-expression
Jean-Marc Champarnaud, Faissal Ouardi, Djelloul Ziadi
Fine Hierarchy of Regular Aperiodic ω-Languages
Victor Selivanov
On Transition Minimality of Bideterministic Automata
Hellis Tamm
15:00-15:30 Coffee Coffee   Coffee
15:30-16:00 Multi-letter Reversible and Quantum Finite Automata
Aleksandrs Belovs, Ansis Rosmanis, Juris Smotrovs
Duplication Roots
Peter Leupold
  Approximability and Non-approximability Results in Computing the Mean Speedup of Trace Monoids
Alberto Bertoni, Roberto Radicioni
16:00-16:30 Non-constructive Methods for Finite Probabilistic Automata
Rūsiņš Freivalds
On Almost Periodicity Criteria for Morphic Sequences in Some Particular Cases
Yuri Pritykin
  A Star Operation for Star-Free Trace Languages
Edward Ochmański, Krystyna Stawikowska
16:30-17:00 Characterizing Reduction Graphs for Gene Assembly in Ciliates
Robert Brijder, Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom
A Local Balance Property of Episturmian Words
Gwénaël Richomme
  Bisimulation Minimisation for Weighted Tree Automata
Johanna Högberg, Andreas Maletti, Jonathan May
17:00-17:30 Complexity Theory for Splicing Systems
Remco Loos, Mitsunori Ogihara
Suffix Automata and Standard Sturmian Words
Marinella Sciortino, Luca Zamboni
  Definable Transductions and Weighted Logics for Texts
Christian Mathissen
  19:00 – 22:00 Welcome reception at Forum Marinum, Linnankatu 72 17:00 –23:00 Excursion to Kavalto Farm. The bus leaves from the ICT building at 5pm.