and USA were attending the meeting and discussing about the main topics of the conference: combinatorics on words, automata theory and formal languages theory and their relationship with other topics like number theory, model-checking, logical aspects, theory of semigroups, game theory, algorithmic aspects, etc.After the conference, participants were invited to submit full research papers for this special issue. Each paper has been refereed using high scientific standards by two independent referees.
The series of International Conferences Developments in Language Theory provides a forum for presenting current developments in formal languages and automata. Its scope is very general and includes, among others, the following topics and areas: combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages; grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs, arrays; algebraic theories for automata and languages; codes; efficient text algorithms; symbolic dynamics; decision problems; relationships to complexity theory and logic; picture description and analysis; polyominoes and bidimensional patterns; cryptography; concurrency; cellular automata; bio-inspired computing; quantum computing.This special issue contains a selection of eight contributions selected from 23 papers originally presented at DLT 2017 and 5 invited lectures. We would like to thank all the reviewers of the papers submitted to this special issue for their precious
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