16th International Workshop on
"Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications"
(NCMA 2026)
June 29-30, 2026, Rouen, France
https://dlt-ncma-2026.sciencesconf.org/
NCMA (since 2009) is a workshop series devoted to research on non-classical models of automata and grammar-like devices, covering both theoretical foundations (descriptional complexity, decidability, complexity) and applications (bio-computing, document processing, self-assembly, etc.). NCMA aims to bring together researchers studying novel or extended computational models, their properties and applications.
Topics for NCMA 2026 include (but are not limited) to :
- Formal models inspired by linguistics, bio-computing, text processing, document engineering, self-assembly, etc.,
- Bio-inspired models of automata and generative devices,
- Cellular automata,
- Forgetting automata and restarting automata,
- Automata with additional resources,
- Regulated rewriting/automata,
- Networks of automata or generative devices,
- Models of cooperation and communication,
- Quantum automata,
- Automata in the framework of membrane computing,
- Complexity aspects for formal systems.
Important dates (all dates are to be understood AoE)
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* Deadline for submissions: April 6, 2026
* Notification of acceptance: May 18, 2026
* Deadline for all final papers: June 8, 2026
* Conference: June 29-30, 2026
Submissions and Proceedings
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Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 16 pages in electronic form (PDF).
About the used style and submission procedure detailed information will be put on the website on due time. The proceedings for full papers is planned to appear in an EPTCS volume.
Proofs omitted due to space constraints may be put into an appendix that will be read by the reviewers at their discretion. All papers will be reviewed by at least three referees, and simultaneous submissions to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings are not allowed.
Invited Speakers
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To be announced
Program Committee
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Martin Berglund (Umeå, Sweden)
Cezar Campeanu (Charlottetown, Canada) (co-chair)
Giuseppa Castiglione (Palermo, Italy)
Pamela Fleischmann (Kiel, Germany)
Zsolt Gazdag (Szeged, Hungary)
Yo-Sub Han (Seoul, South-Korea)
Zbyněk Křivka (Brno, Czech Republic)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen, Germany) (co-chair)
Sylvan Lombardy (Bordeaux, France) (co-chair)
Ian McQuillan (Saskatoon, Canada)
František Mráz (Prague, Czech Republic)
Benedek Nagy (Famagusta, Cyprus)
Beatrice Palano (Milano, Italy)
Luca Prigioniero (Loughborough, UK)
Rogério Reis (Porto, Portugal) and
Agustín Riscos-Núñez (Sevilla, Spain)
Hellis Tamm (Tallinn, Estonia)
Brink van der Merwe (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
(more names to be added)
Local Information:
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The workshop will take place in Rouen (France).
NCMA 2026 will be co-located with DLT 2026: 30th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (June 30 - July 3, 2026).
Contact:
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email: comite.organisation.dlt.ncma.2026@listes.univ-rouen.fr
web : https://dlt-ncma-2026.sciencesconf.org/
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