About us

The series of International Conference on Developments in Language Theory provides a forum for presenting current developments in formal languages and automata.

Important Dates

Fri, Mar 6, 2026

Submission deadline

Fri, Apr 3, 2026

Notification

Wed, Apr 15, 2026

Camera-ready version deadline

Tue, Jun 30, 2026

Conference start date

Fri, Jul 3, 2026

Conference end date

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Quantum computing

Cellular automata

Grammars, acceptors, and transducers for words, trees, and graphs

Algebraic theories of automata

Algorithmic, combinatorial, and algebraic properties of words and languages

Relations between formal languages and artificial neural networks

Variable length codes

Symbolic dynamics

Groups and semigroups generated by automata

Polyominoes and multidimensional patterns

Decidability questions

Image manipulation and compression

Efficient text algorithms

Relationships to cryptography, concurrency, complexity theory, and logic

Bio-inspired computing

Call for Papers Description

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Simultaneous submission to journals or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography and must follow the LNCS-style LaTeX2e.

Committee

Program Committee

Marie-Pierre Béal

Co-Chair

Paris, France

Véronique Bruyère

Mons, Belgium

Pascal Caron

Co-Chair

Rouen, France

Emilie Charlier

Liège, Belgium

Laura Ciobanu

Berlin, Germany

Frank Drewes

Umeå, Sweden

Szilard-Zsolt Fazekas

Akita, Japan

Dora Giammaresi

Roma, Italy

Yo-Sub Han

Seoul, South Korea

Jarkko Kari

Turku, Finland

Cristof Loding

Aachen, Germany

Ian McQuillan

Saskatchewan, Canada

Thomas Place

Bordeaux, France

Marinella Sciortino

Palermo, Italy

Marek Szykula

Wroclaw, Poland

2026 Salomaa Prize Committee

Nelma Moreira

Christian Choffrut

Jürgen Dassow

Speakers

Jean-Eric Pin