Language and Automata Theory and Applications 4th International Conference, LATA 2010, Trier, Germany, May 24-28, 2010, Proceedings

Invited Talks.- Complexity in Convex Languages.- Three Learnable Models for the Description of Language.- Arbology: Trees and Pushdown Automata.- Analysis of Communicating Automata.- Regular Papers.- Complexity of the Satisfiability Problem for a Class of Propositional Schemata.- A Simple n-Dimensional Intrinsically Universal Quantum Cellular Automaton.- A Fast Longest Common Subsequence Algorithm for Similar Strings.- Abelian Square-Free Partial Words.- Avoidable Binary Patterns in Partial Words.- Equivalence and Inclusion Problem for Strongly Unambiguous Büchi Automata.- Pregroup Grammars with Letter Promotions.- A Hierarchical Classification of First-Order Recurrent Neural Networks.- Choosing Word Occurrences for the Smallest Grammar Problem.- Agreement and Cliticization in Italian: A Pregroup Analysis.- Geometricity of Binary Regular Languages.- On the Expressive Power of FO[?+?].- Finding Consistent Categorial Grammars of Bounded Value: A Parameterized Approach.- Operator Precedence and the Visibly Pushdown Property.- On the Maximal Number of Cubic Runs in a String.- On the Hamiltonian Operators for Adiabatic Quantum Reduction of SAT.- Parametric Metric Interval Temporal Logic.- Short Witnesses and Accepting Lassos in ?-Automata.- Grammar-Based Compression in a Streaming Model.- Simplifying Regular Expressions.- A Programming Language Tailored to the Specification and Solution of Differential Equations Describing Processes on Networks.- The Inclusion Problem for Regular Expressions.- Learnability of Automatic Classes.- Untestable Properties Expressible with Four First-Order Quantifiers.- The Copying Power of Well-Nested Multiple Context-Free Grammars.- Post Correspondence Problem with Partially Commutative Alphabets.- Reversible Pushdown Automata.- String Extension Learning Using Lattices.- The Equivalence Problem of Deterministic Multitape Finite Automata: A New Proof of Solvability Using a Multidimensional Tape.- Primitive Words Are Unavoidable for Context-Free Languages.- Modal Nonassociative Lambek Calculus with Assumptions: Complexity and Context-Freeness.- Hard Counting Problems for Partial Words.- Exact Analysis of Horspool’s and Sunday’s Pattern Matching Algorithms with Probabilistic Arithmetic Automata.- SA-REPC – Sequence Alignment with Regular Expression Path Constraint.- CD-Systems of Stateless Deterministic R(1)-Automata Accept All Rational Trace Languages.- A Boundary between Universality and Non-universality in Extended Spiking Neural P Systems.- Using Sums-of-Products for Non-standard Reasoning.- Restarting Automata with Structured Output and Functional Generative Description.- A Randomized Numerical Aligner (rNA).- Language-Based Comparison of Petri Nets with Black Tokens, Pure Names and Ordered Data.- Verifying Complex Continuous Real-Time Systems with Coinductive CLP(R).- Incremental Building in Peptide Computing to Solve Hamiltonian Path Problem.- Variable Automata over Infinite Alphabets.- Some Minimality Results on Biresidual and Biseparable Automata.- Extending Stochastic Context-Free Grammars for an Application in Bioinformatics.- Chomsky-Schützenberger-Type Characterization of Multiple Context-Free Languages.- Complexity of Guided Insertion-Deletion in RNA-Editing.