(ISSN: 2042-1044)
Series Editor
Carlos Martin-Vide (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Email: carlos.martin@urv.cat
Language theory, as originated from Chomsky's seminal work in the fifties last century and in parallel to Turing-inspired automata theory, was first applied to natural language syntax within the context of the first unsuccessful attempts to achieve reliable machine translation prototypes. After this, the theory proved to be very valuable in the study of programming languages and the theory of computing.
In the last 10–15 years, language and automata theory has experienced quick theoretical developments as a consequence of the emergence of new interdisciplinary domains and also as the result of demands for application to a number of disciplines, most notably: natural language processing, computational biology, natural computing, programming, and artificial intelligence.
The series will collect research on either foundational or applied work. Topics to be covered include:
- Theory: language and automata theory, combinatorics on words, descriptional and computational complexity, semigroups, graph and graph transformations, trees, computability.
- Natural language processing: mathematics of natural language processing, finite-state technology, languages and logics, parsing, transducers, text algorithms, web text retrieval.
- Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and programming: patterns, pattern matching and pattern recognition, models of concurrent systems, Petri nets, models of picture, fuzzy languages, grammatical interference and algorithmic learning, language-based cryptography, data and image compression, automata for system analysis and program verification.
- Bio-inspired computing and natural computing: cellular automata, symbolic neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, DNA computing, molecular computing, membrane systems, biomolecular nanotechnology, circuit theory, quantum computing, chemical and optical computing, models of artificial life.
- Bioinformatics: mathematical biology, string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics, mathematical evolutionary genomics, language processing of biological sequences, digital libraries.
In a natural way, the series may have an advisory board consisting of one scholar (or more) for each of the five sub-areas.
Forthcoming title
Vol. 1
Scientific Applications of Language Methods
edited by Carlos Martín-Vide
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