[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weighted Automata: Theory and Applications Dresden University of Technology, March 4 - 8, 2002 The workshop will cover all aspects of weighted automata, ranging from the theory of formal power series to max-plus-algebra and applications as e.g. in algebraic optimization of railway networks or natural language processing. The aim is to present tutorials and survey lectures by outstanding scientists in this area. Moreover, we encourage everybody to participate in this work- shop and present their own technical contribution in this area. We are happy to announce the following tutorials and survey lectures: Tutorials: Survey lectures: S. Gaubert (INRIA, Paris) S. Bloom (Hoboken, New Jersey) D. Kozen (Ithaca) Z. Esik (Szeged) W. Kuich (Wien) Z. F\"ul\"op (Szeged) M. Mohri (AT&T, New Jersey) P. Gastin (Paris), provisionally B. F. Heidergott (Eindhoven) B. Khoussainov (Auckland) G. J. Olsder (Delft) I. Petre (Turku) E. Stark (Stony Brook, New York) K. Zimmermann (Prague) All lecturers are asked to give a survey on their field of interest followed by recent research results. Interested participants are most welcome. If you wish to present a technical contribution, please send us an abstract (preferably of at most one page) before December 1, 2001. Authors will be informed about acceptance of their submission before December 15, 2001. Deadline for registration is February 1, 2001. There are no conference fees. Call for papers: There will be a special issue of the Journal of Automata, Languages, and Combinatorics (JALC) on the topic of this workshop. The deadline for submission of papers is April 20, 2002. All submissions will be refereed according to the usual journal standards. For further information see http://www.orchid.inf.tu-dresden.de/gk-spezifikation/wata.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Manfred Droste Heiko Vogler Dresden University of Technology Dresden University of Technology Institute of Algebra Institute of Theor. Computer Science D-01062 Dresden, Germany D-01062 Dresden, Germany Tel.: +49-351-463-3908 Tel.: +49-351-463-8232 Fax: +49-351-463-4235 Fax: +49-351-463-8504 E-Mail: droste@math.tu-dresden.de E-Mail: vogler@inf.tu-dresden.de