Published: 27th August 2022
DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.367
ISSN: 2075-2180

EPTCS 367

Proceedings 12th International Workshop on
Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications
Debrecen, Hungary, August 26-27, 2022

Edited by: Henning Bordihn, Géza Horváth and György Vaszil

Preface
Henning Bordihn, Géza Horváth and György Vaszil
Invited Presentation: Language and Intelligence, Artificial vs. Natural or What Can and What Cannot AI Do with NL?
Gyula Klima
1
Invited Presentation: Combinatorial Algorithms for Subsequence Matching: A Survey
Maria Kosche, Tore Koß, Florin Manea and Stefan Siemer
11
P versus B: P Systems as a Formal Framework for Controllability of Boolean Networks
Artiom Alhazov, Rudolf Freund and Sergiu Ivanov
28
Monadic Expressions and their Derivatives
Samira Attou, Ludovic Mignot, Clément Miklarz and Florent Nicart
49
On the Generative Capacity of Contextual Grammars with Strictly Locally Testable Selection Languages
Jürgen Dassow and Bianca Truthe
65
A Finite-Automaton Based Stream Cipher As a Quasigroup Based Cipher
Pál Dömösi and Adama Diene
81
Practical Aspects of Membership Problem of Watson-Crick Context-free Grammars
Jan Hammer and Zbyněk Křivka
88
Conclusive Tree-Controlled Grammars
Dominika Klobučníková, Zbyněk Křivka and Alexander Meduna
112
Reversible Computations of One-Way Counter Automata
Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher
126
Non-Returning Finite Automata With Translucent Letters
František Mráz and Friedrich Otto
143
Quasi-deterministic 5' -> 3' Watson-Crick Automata
Benedek Nagy
160
On the Accepting State Complexity of Operations on Permutation Automata
Christian Rauch and Markus Holzer
177

Preface

The Twelfth International Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications (NCMA 2022) was held in Debrecen, Hungary, on August 26 and 27, 2022. The NCMA workshop series was established in 2009 as an annual event for researchers working on non-classical and classical models of automata, grammars or related devices. Such models are investigated both as theoretical models and as formal models for applications from different points of view. The goal of the NCMA workshop series is to exchange and develop novel ideas in order to gain deeper and interdisciplinary coverage of this particular area that may foster new insights and substantial progress.

The previous NCMA workshops took place in the following places: Wrocław, Poland (2009), Jena, Germany (2010), Milano, Italy (2011), Fribourg, Switzerland (2012), Umeå, Sweden (2013), Kassel, Germany (2014), Porto, Portugal (2015), Debrecen, Hungary (2016), Prague, Czech Republic (2017), Košice, Slovakia (2018), Valencia, Spain (2019). Due to the Covid-19 pandemic there was no NCMA workshop in 2020 and 2021. % The Twelfth International Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications (NCMA 2022) was organized by the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Debrecen. It was co-located with DCFS 2022, the 24th International Conference of Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (August 29 - 31) and MCU 2022, the 9th Conference on Machines, Computations and Universality (August 31 - September 2, 2022). Its scientific program consisted of invited lectures, regular contributions, and short presentations. The invited lectures at NCMA 2022 have been the following:

The 10 regular contributions have been selected out of 13 submissions by a total of 32 authors from 10 different countries by the following members of the Program Committee: In addition to the invited lectures and the regular submissions, NCMA 2022 also featured five short presentations to emphasize the workshop character. This volume contains the invited and regular presentations.

A special issue of the journal RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications containing extended versions of selected regular contributions to NCMA 2022 will also be edited after the workshop. The extended papers will undergo the standard refereeing process of the journal.

We are grateful to the two invited speakers, to all authors who submitted a paper to NCMA 2022, to all members of the Program Committee, their colleagues who helped evaluating the submissions, and to the members of the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Debrecen who were involved in the local organization of NCMA 2022.