This is the 2nd Call for Papers for the

Tenth International Conference:
DEVELOPMENTS IN LANGUAGE THEORY - DLT 2006
June 26-29, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

DLT 2006 will take place at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
on June 26-29, 2006.
The conference is also under the auspices of the
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

Papers presenting original contributions in formal languages,
automata theory, and related areas are being sought.
Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other conference
are not allowed.

TOPICS

Typical, but not exclusive, topics include:  
- grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs, arrays
- efficient text algorithms 
- algebraic theories for automata and languages
- combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages
- variable-length codes 
- symbolic dynamics
- decision problems
- relations to complexity theory and logic 
- picture description and analysis 
- polyominoes and bidimensional patterns
- cryptography 
- concurrency 
- bio-inspired computing 
- quantum computing

INVITED SPEAKERS

      Rajeev Alur (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
      Yuri Gurevich (Redmond, Washington, USA)
      Gheorghe Paun (Bucharest, Romania & Seville, Spain)
      Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden, The Netherlands)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

      Jean Berstel (Marne-la-Vallee, France) 
      Cristian Calude (Auckland, New Zealand) 
      Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest, Hungary) 
      Zhe Dang (Pullman, USA) 
      Volker Diekert (Stuttgart, Germany) 
      Omer Egecioglu (Santa Barbara, USA) 
      Zoltan Esik (Szeged, Hungary & Tarragona, Spain) 
      Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich, Switzerland) 
      Oscar H. Ibarra, Chair (Santa Barbara, USA) 
      Masami Ito (Kyoto, Japan) 
      Natasha Jonoska (Tampa, USA) 
      Juhani Karhumaki (Turku, Finland) 
      Lila Kari (London, Canada) 
      Werner Kuich (Vienna, Austria)
      Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, Italy) 
      Jean-Eric Pin (Paris, France) 
      Bala Ravikumar (Sonoma, USA) 
      Antonio Restivo (Palermo, Italy) 
      Kai Salomaa (Kingston, Canada) 
      Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo, Canada) 
      Wolfgang Thomas (Aachen, Germany) 
      Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei, Taiwan) 
      Sheng Yu (London, Canada) 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

      Omer Egecioglu, Co-Chair (Santa Barbara, USA) 
      Bee Jay Estalilla (Santa Barbara, USA)
      Cagdas Gerede (Santa Barbara, USA) 
      Oscar H. Ibarra, Co-Chair (Santa Barbara, USA) 
      Jianwen Su (Santa Barbara, USA) 
      Sara Woodworth (Santa Barbara, USA) 

PROCEEDINGS COMMITTEE

      Zhe Dang (Pullman, USA) 
      Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, USA) 

IMPORTANT DATES

      Deadline for Submission: February 12, 2006 
      Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2006 
      Final Version: April 2, 2006 
      Conference: June 26-29, 2006 

PROCEEDINGS/SPECIAL ISSUE
      
      The Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag
      in the LNCS series and will available at the meeting.

      A special issue of an international journal containing
      selected papers will be published after the conference.

CONTACT ADDRESS:
 
      Oscar H. Ibarra
      Department of Computer Science
      University of California
      Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
      Email: ibarra@cs.ucsb.edu

For submission instructions, please see the conference web site at
http://dlt2006.cs.ucsb.edu/