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14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

LATA 2020

Milan, Italy

March 4-6, 2020

Co-organized by:
    
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
University of Milano-Bicocca

and

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice
Brussels/London

https://lata2020.irdta.eu
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PROGRAM

Wednesday, March 4

09:00 - 09:30    Registration

09:30 - 09:40    Opening

09:40 - 10:30    Eric Allender. The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization - Invited lecture

10:30 - 10:50    Break

10:50 - 12:05

Dmitry Berdinsky and Prohrak Kruengthomya. Nonstandard Cayley Automatic Representations for Fundamental Groups of Torus Bundles over the Circle

Alexis Bes and Christian Choffrut. Deciding (R,+,<,1) in (R,+,<,Z)

Ziyuan Gao, Sanjay Jain, Ji Qi, Philipp Schlicht, Frank Stephan and Jacob Tarr. Ordered Semiautomatic Rings with Applications to Geometry

12:05 - 13:35    Lunch

13:35 - 14:25    Laure Daviaud. Containment and Equivalence of Weighted Automata: Probabilistic and Max-Plus Cases - Invited lecture

14:25 - 14:45    Break

14:45 - 16:00

Siddharth Bhaskar, Jane Chandlee, Adam Jardine and Christopher Oakden. Boolean Monadic Recursive Schemes as a Logical Characterization of the Subsequential Functions

Susanna Donatelli and Serge Haddad. Expressiveness and Conciseness of Timed Automata for the Verification of Stochastic Models

Mehmet Utkan Gezer. Windable Heads & Recognizing NL with Constant Randomness

16:00 - 16:20    Break

16:20 - 17:35

Chris Keeler and Kai Salomaa. Alternating Finite Automata with Limited Universal Branching

Nadia Labai, Tomer Kotek, Magdalena Ortiz and Helmut Veith. Pebble-intervals Automata and FO2 with Two Orders

Ahmet Bilal Uçan. Limited Two-way Deterministic Finite Automata with Advice

17:35 - 19:35    Touristic visit

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Thursday, March 5

09:00 - 09:50    Christoph Haase. Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata - Invited lecture

09:50 - 10:10    Break

10:10 - 11:25

Kazuyuki Amano. On the Size of Depth-two Threshold Circuits for the Inner Product mod 2 Function

Riccardo Dondi, Giancarlo Mauri and Italo Zoppis. Complexity Issues of String to Graph Approximate Matching

Hans Zantema. Complexity of Automatic Sequences

11:25 - 11:45    Break and Group photo

11:45 - 12:35

Aaron Lye. Context-sensitive Fusion Grammars Are Universal

Alexander Okhotin and Alexey Sorokin. Cyclic Shift on Multi-component Grammars

12:35 - 14:05    Lunch 

14:05 - 14:55    Artur Jez. Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data - Invited lecture

14:55 - 15:15    Break

15:15 - 16:30

Olivier Finkel. The Automatic Baire Property and an Effective Property of omega-Rational Functions

Nathan Grosshans. The Power of Programs over Monoids in J

Ondrej Klíma and Peter Kostolányi. Geometrically Closed Positive Varieties of Star-free Languages

16:30 - 16:50    Break

16:50 - 18:05

Tomoyuki Yamakami. Intersection and Union Hierarchies of Deterministic Context-free Languages and Pumping Lemmas

Vikraman Arvind, Frank Fuhlbrück, Johannes Koebler and Oleg Verbitsky. On the Weisfeiler-Leman Dimension of Fractional Packing

Jing Ji and Jeffrey Heinz. Input Strictly Local Tree Transducers

18:05 - 19:15    Reception

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Friday, March 6

09:00 - 09:50    Jean-Éric Pin. How to Prove that a Language is Regular or Star-free? - Invited lecture

09:50 - 10:10    Break

10:10 - 11:25

Paola Bonizzoni, Clelia De Felice, Rocco Zaccagnino and Rosalba Zizza. Lyndon Words versus Inverse Lyndon Words: Queries on Suffixes and Bordered Words

Jeffery Dick, Laura Hutchinson, Robert Mercas and Daniel Reidenbach. Reducing the Ambiguity of Parikh Matrices

Pamela Fleischmann, Dirk Nowotka, Mitja Kulczynski and Danny Bøgsted Poulsen. On Collapsing Prefix Normal Words

11:25 - 11:45    Break

11:45 - 12:35

Aaron Moss. Simplified Parsing Expression Derivatives

Jean Néraud. Complete Variable-length Codes: An Excursion into Word Edit Operations

12:35 - 14:05    Lunch

14:05 - 14:55    Thomas Place. Deciding Classes of Regular Languages: The Covering Approach - Invited lecture

14:55 - 15:05    Closing