CIAA, the International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata is an annual
academic conference
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in the field of
computer science
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.
Its purpose is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in the theory, implementation, and application of automata and related structures. There, the conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including theoretical aspects. In 2000, the conference grew out of the Workshop on Implementation of Automata (WIA).
Like most theoretical computer science conferences its contributions are strongly peer-reviewed; the articles appear in proceedings published in
Springer
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Publishers
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Overview
The series contains proceedings, post- proceedings, monographs, and Festschrift
In academia, a ''F ...
. Extended versions of selected papers of each year's conference alternatingly appear in the journals
Theoretical Computer Science
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It is difficult to circumsc ...
and
International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
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. Every year a best paper award is presented.
Topics of the Conference
Since the focus of the conference is on applied theory,
contributions usually come from a widespread range of application domains.
Typical topics of the conference include, among others, the following,
as they relate to automata:
*
Bio-inspired computing
Bio-inspired computing, short for biologically inspired computing, is a field of study which seeks to solve computer science problems using models of biology. It relates to connectionism, social behavior, and emergence. Within computer science, b ...
* Complexity of automata operations,
state complexity
*
Compiler
In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the ''source'' language) into another language (the ''target'' language). The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that ...
s
* Computer-aided verification,
model checking
In computer science, model checking or property checking is a method for checking whether a finite-state model of a system meets a given specification (also known as correctness). This is typically associated with hardware or software system ...
* Concurrency
*
Data and image compression
* Design and architecture of automata software
* Document engineering
*
Natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to proc ...
*
Pattern matching
In computer science, pattern matching is the act of checking a given sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of some pattern. In contrast to pattern recognition, the match usually has to be exact: "either it will or will not be ...
* Teaching of
automata theory
Automata theory is the study of abstract machines and automata, as well as the computational problems that can be solved using them. It is a theory in theoretical computer science. The word ''automata'' comes from the Greek word αὐτόματο� ...
*
Text processing
In computing, the term text processing refers to the theory and practice of automating the creation or manipulation of electronic text.
''Text'' usually refers to all the alphanumeric characters specified on the keyboard of the person engaging t ...
* Techniques for graphical display of automata
History of the Conference
The CIAA conference series was founded by
Darrell Raymond and
Derick Wood
Derick Wood (1940–2010) was an English computer scientist who worked for many years as a professor of computer science in Canada and Hong Kong. He was known for his research in automata theory and formal languages, much of which he published in ...
.
Since 2013, the Steering committee is chaired by
Kai Salomaa.
See also
*
List of computer science conferences
This is a list of academic conferences in computer science. Only conferences with separate articles are included; within each field, the conferences are listed alphabetically by their short names.
General
* FCRC – Federated Computing Research ...
contains other academic conferences in computer science
References
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External links
official website of CIAACIAA proceedings informationfrom
DBLP
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Theoretical computer science conferences
Automata (computation)
Formal languages
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