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Submissions consisting of original research studying subjects in the theory of automata and/or formal languages are
welcome for AFL 2026. Topics include, but are not limited to:

  •  grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs, arrays, etc.,
  • algebraic theories for automata and languages,
  • combinatorial properties of words and languages,
  • formal power series,
  • decision problems, efficient algorithms for automata and languages,
  • complexity theory and logic,
  • picture description and analysis,
  • quantum computing,
  • cryptography,
  • concurrency,
  • applications of automata and language theory in biology, natural language processing, and other fields.

Important dates

Submission: May 20
Notification: July 6
Final version: July 14
Conference: September 7-10