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28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENTS IN LANGUAGE THEORY (DLT 2024)

DLT is an event organized to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in formal languages, automata theory, and related areas (list of topics below). This iteration of the DLT conference will be held in conjunction with the 14th International Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications (NCMA 2024) in Göttingen, Germany in August 2024.

Alongside the regular programme of contributed talks and social events, there will also be four invited talks (see below), a mentoring workshop, highlights talks, and an evening lecture on linguistics by Anke Holler (Göttingen).

The conference will also see the 2024 Salomaa Prize (https://math.utu.fi/salomaaprize/) awarded, named to honour the scientific achievements and influence of Academician Arto Salomaa, a founder of the DLT symposium. The prize consists of a diploma and 2000 euros, funded by the University of Turku, Finland, the home university of Arto Salomaa.

**Important Dates**

Deadline for paper submission: 8 March 2024 Notification: 3 May 2024 Final Version: 17 May 2024 DLT 2023: 12-16 August 2024

**Invited Speakers**

Laura Ciobanu (Edinburgh, UK) Sandra Kiefer (Oxford, UK) Pawel Gawrychowski (Wroclaw, Poland) Martin Kutrib (Gießen, Germany)

**Program Committee**

Marie-Pierre Béal, Joel Day (chair), Dora Giammarresi, Yo-Sub Han, Mika Hirvensalo, Markus Holzer, Tomohiro I, Zsuzsanna Liptak, Florin Manea (chair), Sebastian Maneth, Ian McQuillan, Robert Mercas, Cyril Nicaud, Svetlana Puzynina, Daniel Reidenbach, Arseny Shur, Manon Stipulanti, Bianca Truthe, Mikhail Volkov, Markus Whiteland, Georg Zetzsche

**Venue**

The conference will be held at the historic University of Göttingen in Germany, hosted by the TCS research group of Florin Manea. For more information, see https://dlt2024.uni-goettingen.de/.

**Publication**

The Proceedings of DLT 2024 will be published in the Springer LNCS series.

**Submission Guidelines**

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. The proceedings of DLT 2024 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer).

Please submit your paper here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt2024.

Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography, the title page (containing only the title, authors, affiliations, abstract), and a potential appendix (see below), and must follow the LNCS-style LaTex2e (available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui...).

Proofs omitted due to space constraints should be put into an appendix, to be read by the program committee members at their discretion.

Further questions about submissions should be emailed to dlt2024@easychair.org.

Typical 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 relations between formal languages and artificial neural networks computational linguistics variable length codes symbolic dynamics cellular automata groups and semigroups generated by 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

**Sponsors**

The German Research Foundation (DFG).