The 22nd International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2018) will be held in Tokyo, Japan on September 10-14th, 2018. The conference is organized by Algorithmic “Oritatami” Self-Assembly Lab, The University of Electro-Communications (UEC) as part of UEC 100th Anniversary Commemorative Event.

The topics include, but are not limited to:

    grammars, acceptors, and transducers for words, trees, and graphs;
    algebraic theories of automata;
    algorithmic, combinatorial, and algebraic properties of words and languages;
    variable length codes;
    symbolic dynamics;
    cellular automata;
    polyominoes and multidimensional patterns;
    decidability questions;
    image manipulation and compression;
    efficient text algorithms;
    relationships to cryptography, concurrency, complexity theory, and logic;
    bio-inspired computing;
    quantum computing