WATA 2004

The Ph.D. programme of the Faculty of Computer Science of the Dresden University of Technology will organize a workshop on

Weighted Automata: Theory and Applications

from June 1 - 5, 2004,
in Dresden, Germany

The workshop should cover all aspects of weighted automata, ranging from the theory of formal power series to max-plus-algebra and applications e.g. in digital image processing or algebraic optimization of networks. The aim is to present tutorials and survey lectures by outstanding scientists in this area. Moreover, we encourage everybody to participate in this workshop and present their own technical contribution in this area.

We are happy to announce the following tutorials and survey lectures:

Tutorials:

P. Butkovic (Birmingham)
J. Kari (Iowa City)
U. Montanari (Pisa)
J. Sakarovitch (Paris)

Survey lectures:

J. Albert (Würzburg)
S. Bozapalidis (Thessaloniki)
Z. Ésik (Szeged)
F. Katritzke (Siegen)
D. Kirsten (Dresden)
W. Kuich (Wien)
L. Staiger (Halle)

All lecturers are asked to give a survey on their field of interest followed by recent research results.

Important Dates:

submission of abstracts	February 15, 2004
notification of acceptance	March 15, 2004
registration	April 1, 2004
submission of papers	July 15, 2004

Call for Participation:

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 February 15, 2004. Authors will be informed about acceptance of their submission before March 15, 2004.

Registration:

Deadline for registration is April 1, 2004. There are no conference fees.

In order to register, please send your name, affiliation, e-mail, intended length of participation to achtruth@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de and state if you want to participate at the excursion (for free) and/or conference dinner (not for free) or not.

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 July 15, 2004. All submissions will be refereed according to the usual journal standards. For further information see http://www.orchid.inf.tu-dresden.de/gk-spezifikation/wata4cfp.html.

Scientific Programme:

Here you can find ...,

the schedule of the scientific programme,
the detailed scientific programme, and
the list of talks with abstracts

Informal get together, Excursion, and Conference Dinner:

On Monday, May 31st, we will meet informally at 8.00 pm in the restaurant of the Guesthouse "Am Weberplatz",
for Thursday afternoon, June 3rd, we plan an excursion (for free), and
for Friday, June 4th, in the evening we plan a conference dinner (not for free).

Further information will be announced at the conference.

Conference location:

Dresden University of Technology, "von-Gerber-Bau", Bergstraße 53, room 038. Registration will be in room 039.

Accomodation:

We have reserved in the guesthouse "Am Weberplatz" for all invited speakers and further participants a limited number of rooms at an inexpensive rate. To obtain these rooms, we ask the "further participants" (participants with technical contributions or without) to register directly at the guesthouse before March 3, 2004 mentioning "WATA". The rooms will be assigned on a first come - first serve basis.
If you are a late arriver please mention this too. All prices include breakfast and taxes.

Gästehaus der TU Dresden "Am Weberplatz"

Single: 50 EURO
Double: 65 EURO
Tel: +49 (351) 467 93 00
Fax: +49 (351) 467 93 94
Address: Weberplatz 3, D-01217 Dresden
Location: walking distance to the conference site about 20 minutes
Public transport:
- to the conference site: bus no. 61 from Zellescher Weg to Fritz-Foerster Platz
- to the railway station: tram no. 11 from Strehlener Platz to Hauptbahnhof-Nord

Further hotels:

Hotel Europa

Single: 61 - 71 EURO
Double: 76 - 86 EURO
Tel: +49 (351) 4664 - 0
Fax: +49 (351) 4664 - 100
Address: Strehlener Straße 20, D-01069 Dresden
Location: close to the railway station about 10 minutes walking distance, walking distance to the conference site about 20 minutes
Public transport:
- to the conference site: bus no. 72 or 76 from Strehlener Platz to Fritz-Foerster Platz
- to the railway station: bus no. 72 or 76 from Strehlener Platz to Hauptbahnhof

Gästehaus der TU Dresden "Einsteinstraße"

Single: 50 EURO
Double: 65 EURO
Tel: +49 (351) 463 3 34 75
Fax: +49 (351) 463 3 64 88
Address: Einsteinstraße 9, D-01069 Dresden
Location: walking distance to the conference site about 5 minutes
Public transport:
- to the railway station: bus no. 76 from F.-Foerster-Platz to Hauptbahnhof

Addresses of additional overnight accommodations in Dresden

Organizers:

Manfred Droste

Leipzig University
Institute of Computer Science
D-04009 Leipzig, Germany

Tel.: +49-341-9732200

E-Mail: droste@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Heiko Vogler

Dresden University of Technology
Faculty of Computer Science
Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
D-01062 Dresden, Germany

Tel.: +49-351-463-38232
Fax: +49-351-463-37959
E-Mail: vogler@inf.tu-dresden.de

If you have requests concerning WATA 2004, please send an e-mail to: wata2004@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de

Support:

This workshop has been supported by:

German Research Foundation (DFG)
Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der TU Dresden e.V.

Further information:

city map
conference site
travel information (public tram- and bus-system)
Graduate Programme "Specification of discrete processes and systems of processes by operational models and logics"
Dresden University of Technology
Dresden as the hosting town

May 18, 2004/dw)