This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language
and Automata Theory and Applications LATA 2018 held in Ramat Gan Israel in April 2018.The
20 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and
selected from 58 submissions. The papers cover fields like algebraic language theory
algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and
logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automatic
structures codes combinatorics on words computational complexity concurrency and Petri nets
data and image compression descriptional complexity foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML grammars (Chomsky hierarchy contextual unification categorial etc.)
grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language
varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography mathematical and logical foundations of
programming methodologies parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series
string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees tree
languages and tree automata and weighted automata.
