Program of the Third Workshop

Descriptional Complexity
of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures

July 20-22, 2001, Vienna, Austria



Friday, July 20, 2001
09:05-17:15 Common sessions with DLT 2001. For the program see http://www.emcc.at/dlt-2001/programm.html
18:00 Reception by the Rektor of Technische Universität Wien

Saturday, July 21, 2001
09:00-10:00 Invited Lecture: J. Hromkovic (Aachen):
Descriptional Complexity of Regular Languages (Concepts and Open Problems)
10:00-10:25 Coffee Break
10:25-10:50 M. Domaratzki (Kingston, Ontario), D. Kisman (Toronto, Ontario), J. Shallit (Waterloo, Ontario):
On the Number of Distinct Languages Accepted by Finite Automata with n States
10:50-11:15 C. Mereghetti (Milano), B. Palano (Torino), G. Pighizzini (Milano):
On the Succinctness of Deterministic, Nondeterministic, Probabilistic and Quantum Finite Automata
11:15-11:40 A. Malcher (Frankfurt/Main):
Descriptional Complexity of Cellular Automata and Decidability Questions
11:40-12:05 P. Séébold (Amiens):
Some Properties of the Prouhet Morphisms and Words
12:05-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:25 H. Leung, V. Podolskiy (Las Cruces, New Mexico):
The Limitedness Problem on Distance Automata
14:25-14:50 K. Hashiguchi, T. Kunai, S. Jimbo (Okayama):
Finite Codes over Free Binoids
14:50-15:15 M. Kutrib (Giessen):
Refining Nondeterminism Below Linear-Time
15:15-15:40 M. Plátek, F. Mráz (Praha):
Degrees of (Non)Monotonicity of RRW-Automata
15:40-16:05 F.L. Tiplea (Iasi), E. Mäkinen (Tampere):
On the Complexity of a Problem on Monadic String Rewriting Systems
16:05-16:25 Coffee Break
16:25-16:50 K. Arthi, K. Krithivasan (Madras), E. Csuhaj-Varjú (Budapest):
On the Number of Rules in Components of Cooperating Distributed Grammar Systems with Probabilities
16:50-17:15 H. Bordihn (Potsdam), B. Reichel (Magdeburg):
On Descriptions of Context-Free Languages by CD Grammar Systems
17:15-17:40 H. Fernau (Tübingen), M. Holzer (München):
Graph-Controlled Cooperating Distributed Grammar Systems with Singleton Components
17:40-18:05 M. Sakthi Balan (Madras):
Parallel Communicating Pushdown Automata with Filters in Communication
18:15-19:15 Business Meeting of IFIP Working Group 1.2 Descriptional Complexity

Sunday, July 22, 2001
09:00-10:00 Invited Lecture: A. Meduna (Brno):
Descriptional Complexity of Partially Parallel Grammars
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-10:45 C. Martín-Vide (Tarragona), V. Mitrana (Bucuresti):
Grammars with Bounded-Life Resources
10:45-11:10 J. Neumann, A. Szepietowski (Gdansk):
The Emptiness Problem for Weak Rabin Tree Automata
11:10-11:35 M. Domaratzki (Kingston, Ontario):
State Complexity and Proportional Removals
11:35-12.00 H.N. Adorna (Aachen):
3-Party Message Complexity is Better than 2-Party Ones for Proving Lower Bounds on the Size of Minimal Nondeterministic Finite Automata


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Bernd Reichel, Magdeburg 05.06.2001
reichel@iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de