WORDS, LANGUAGES AND COMBINATORICS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Counting factors in words, semidirect products and power semigroups, J. Almeida; languages and scanners, D. Beauquier and J.E. Pin; characterizations of Schutzenberger graphs, D. Cowan and N.R. Reilly; encoding images as words and languages, K. Culik and S. Dube; rewriting methods for world problems, N. Dershowits; Mobius functions and confluent semi-commutation, V. Diekert; rewritable groups and semigroups and structure theory of set addition, G.A. Freiman and B.M. Schein; rational relations with bounded delay, C. Frougny and J. Sakarovitch; systems of equations over finite sets of word and automata theory, J. Karhumaki; permutation and iteration conditions for semigroups, A. De Luca and S. Varricchio; some recent results on string-rewriting systems that are confluent on some congruence class, F. Otto; total orders on free groups and monoids, W.B. Powell; order, invariance and visibility, I. Rival; rational word functions - characterization and minimization, C. Reutenauer and M.P. Schutzenberger.