Ebook: Implementation and Application of Automata: 5th International Conference, CIAA 2000 London, Ontario, Canada, July 24–25, 2000 Revised Papers

The Fifth International Conference on Implementation and Application of - tomata (CIAA 2000) was held at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada on July 24-25, 2000. This conference series was formerly called the International Workshop on Implementing Automata (WIA) This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains all the papers that were presented at CIAA 2000, and also the abstracts of the poster papers that were displayed during the conference. The conference addressed issues in automata application and implemen- tion. The topics of the papers presented at this conference ranged from automata applications in software engineering, natural language and speech recognition, and image processing, to new representations and algorithms for e cient imp- mentation of automata and related structures. Automata theory is one of the oldest areas in computer science. Research in automata theory has always been motivated by its applications since its early stages of development. In the 1960s and 1970s, automata research was moti- ted heavily by problems arising from compiler construction, circuit design, string matching, etc. In recent years, many new applications have been found in various areas of computer science as well as in other disciplines. Examples of the new applications include statecharts in object-oriented modeling, nite transducers in natural language processing, and nondeterministic nite-state models in c- munication protocols. Many of the new applications do not and cannot simply apply the existing models and algorithms in automata theory to their problems.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2000, held in London, Ontario, Canada, in July 2000.
The 26 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers and seven abstracts have passed through two rounds of selection and revision. The topics addressed from theoretical as well as application-oriented viewpoints range from automata applications in software engineering, natural language and speech recognition, and image processing to new representations and algorithms for efficient implementation of automata and related structures.