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Important dates:
- Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2025
- Author notification: April 27, 2025
- Camera-ready deadline: May 11, 2025
- Conference: July 22-24, 2025 – Loughborough, UK
The 26th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems is organized by the Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, and by the IFIP Working Group 1.02 “Descriptional Complexity”.
Main topics:
Submissions concerning the descriptional complexity of formal systems and structures (and its applications) are invited for DCFS 2025. Original papers are sought in all aspects of descriptional complexity. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Automata, grammars, languages and other formal systems; various modes of operations and complexity measures.
- Succinctness of description of objects, state-explosion-like phenomena.
- Circuit complexity of Boolean functions and related measures.
- Size complexity of formal systems.
- Structural complexity of formal systems.
- Trade-offs between computational models and mode of operation.
- Applications of formal systems– for instance in software and hardware testing, in dialogue systems, in systems modeling or in modeling natural languages– and their complexity constraints.
- Co-operating formal systems.
- Size or structural complexity of formal systems for modeling natural languages.
- Complexity aspects related to the combinatorics of words.
- Descriptional complexity in resource-bounded or structure-bounded environments.
- Structural complexity as related to descriptional complexity.
- Frontiers between decidability and undecidability.
- Universality and reversibility.
- Nature-motivated (bio-inspired) architectures and unconventional models of computing.
- Blum Static (Kolmogorov/Chaitin) complexity, algorithmic information.
Paper submission
Submissions to DCFS must not exceed 12 pages (in Springer-Verlag’s Lecture Notes style and including bibliography). If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the main claims, they
may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other conference with published proceedings or submitting
previously published papers is not allowed. Only electronic submissions in the PDF format are accepted.
Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system.
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
More information
e-mail: [email protected]
