Developments In Language Theory 8th International Conference, Dlt 2004, Auckland, New Zealand, December 13-17, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2004, held in Auckland, New Zealand in December 2004. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The main subjects are formal languages, automata, conventional and unconventional computation theory, and applications of automata theory. Among the topics addressed are grammars and acceptors for strings, graphs, and arrays; efficient text algorithms, combinatorial and algebraic properties of languages; decision problems; relations to complexity theory and logic; picture description and analysis; cryptography; concurrency; DNA computing; and quantum computing.Calude, Cristian S. is the author of 'Developments In Language Theory 8th International Conference, Dlt 2004, Auckland, New Zealand, December 13-17, Proceedings', published 2005 under ISBN 9783540240143 and ISBN 3540240144.