Developments in Language Theory [electronic resource] : 18th International Conference, DLT 2014, Ekaterinburg, Russia, August 26-29, 2014. Proceedings / edited by Arseny M. Shur, Mikhail V. Volkov.

Finite Automata and Regular Languages On Automatic Transitive Graphs.-  Upper Bounds on Syntactic Complexity of Left and Two-Sided Ideals -- On the Average Complexity of Brzozowski's Algorithm for Deterministic Automata with a Small Number of Final States -- State Complexity of Deletion -- Semisimple Synchronizing Automata and the Wedderburn-Artin Theory -- On two Algorithmic Problems about Synchronizing Automata (short paper) -- Synchronizing Automata with Random Inputs (short paper) -- Graph Spectral Properties of Deterministic Finite Automata (short paper) -- Pushdown Automata and Related Models -- Input-Driven Pushdown Automata with Limited Nondeterminism (invited paper) -- How to Remove the Look-Ahead of Top-Down Tree Transducers -- Scope-Bounded Pushdown Languages -- Visibly Pushdown Transducers with Well-nested Outputs -- Characterising REGEX Languages by Regular Languages Equipped with Factor-Referencing -- Pumping Lemma and Ogden Lemma for Displacement Context-free Grammars -- Combinatorics and Algorithmics on Words Aperiodic Tilings and Entropy -- On k-Abelian Pattern Matching -- On k-Abelian Palindromic Rich and Poor Words -- Variations of The Morse{Hedlund Theorem for k-Abelian Equivalence -- Maximum Number of Distinct and Nonequivalent Nonstandard Squares in a Word -- Knight Tiles: Particles and Collisions in The Realm of 4-Way Deterministic Tilings -- Eigenvalues and Transduction of Morphic Sequences -- Breadth-First Serialisation of Trees and Rational Languages (short paper) -- Algebraic, Decidability and Complexity Problems for Languages Measuring Communication in Automata Systems (invited paper) -- From Algebra to Logic: There and Back Again { The Story of A Hierarchy (invited paper) -- Closure Properties of Pattern Languages -- Minimal and Hyper-Minimal Biautomata -- Deterministic Set Automata -- The Minimum Amount of Useful Space: New Results and New Directions -- Debates with Small Transparent Quantum Verifiers -- Embedding Finite and Infinite Words into Overlapping Tiles.