Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

• algebraic language theory
  
• algorithms for semi-structured data mining
  
• algorithms on automata and words
  
• automata and logic
  
• automata for system analysis and programme verification
  
• automata networks
  
• automata, concurrency and Petri nets
  
• automatic structures
  
• codes
  
• combinatorics on words
  
• computational complexity
  
• data and image compression
  
• descriptional complexity
  
• foundations of finite state technology
  
• foundations of XML
  
• grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
  
• grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
  
• graphs and graph transformation
  
• language varieties and semigroups
  
• language-based cryptography
  
• mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies
  
• parallel and regulated rewriting
  
• parsing
  
• patterns
  
• power series
  
• string processing algorithms
  
• symbolic dynamics
  
• term rewriting
  
• transducers
  
• trees, tree languages and tree automata
  
• weighted automata