NEWS The 20th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA 2015), has been held in the City of Umeå, organized by the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University, Sweden, during August 18-21, 2015.
The CIAA conference series is the major international venue for the dissemination of new results in the implementation, application, and theory of automata. The previous 19 conferences were held in various locations all around the globe: Blois (2011), Giessen (2014), Halifax (2013), Kingston (2004), London Ontario (WIA 1997, WIA 1996, and 2000), Nice (2005), Porto (2012), Potsdam (WIA 1999), Prague (2007), Pretoria (2001), Rouen (WIA 1998), San Francisco (2008), Santa Barbara (2003), Sydney (2009), Taipei (2006), Tours (2002), and Winnipeg (2010).
In total 49 papers were submitted by authors in 20 different countries: Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the USA. 22 papers were selected for presentation at the conference and the publication.
Four invited talks were given by Benedikt Bollig, Christof Löoding, Andreas Maletti, and Bruce Watson.
Editor: Mikael Hansson