Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
- grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs,
arrays, etc.,
- algebraic theories for automata and languages,
- combinatorial properties of words and languages,
- formal power series and weighted automata,
- cellular automata,
- decision problems,
- efficient algorithms for automata and languages,
- descriptional and computational complexity of automata and
languages,
- relations to
- logic,
- picture description and analysis,
- concurrency,
- distributed systems, multi-agent systems,
- bio-inspired computing,
- quantum computing,
- and cryptography.
