DCFS is the successor of DCAGRS (Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures) whose first edition was organized in Magdeburg 10 years ago and FDSR (Formal Descriptions and Software Reliability).

Previous editions of DCFS took place in

	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (2008):	http://www.csit.upei.ca/dcfs2008/
	Nový Smokovec, Slovakia (2007):	http://dcfs07.ics.upjs.sk
	Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA (2006):	http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/dcfs06/
	Como, Italy (2005):	http://dcfs05.dico.unimi.it/
	London, Ontario, Canada (2004)
	Budapest, Hungary (2003):	http://www.sztaki.hu/tcs/dcfsarchiv/
	London, Ontario, Canada (2002):	http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcfs02/

DCAGRS took place in

	Vienna, Austria (2001):	http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs01/
	London, Ontario, Canada (2000)
	Magdeburg, Germany (1999):	http://fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs/

FDSR took place in

	San José, California, USA (2000)
	Boca Raton, Florida, USA (1999)
	Paderborn, Germany (1998)