The CIAA conference series was started in 1996 as the Workshop on Implementation and Application of Automata, in London, Ontario, Canada, and became Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata four years later, in 2000, when it was celebrated half century of automata theory (HCAT 2000 - London, Ontario).

The conference brings together researchers from both theory and practice because the contributions to this conference cover all practical and theoretical aspects in automata theory and related structures
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Moreover, topics of interest include and focuses on its implementations and applications in software, mathematics, programming, DNA or other bio-inspired computations, also both classical and non-classical automata theory.

The purpose of the conference is to facilitate a better interaction between members of the academic, research, and industrial community, having as main interest solving and analyzing problems in implementation and application of automata, the foundation of computer science.

The scientific program consists of invited lectures and presentations of papers selected by the international program committee, based on a thorough peer-reviewing process. A Best Paper Award (named after one of the conference founders, the late Sheng Yu) is announced and presented during the conference. The proceedings of CIAA 2018 will be published as a volume of LNCS and will be available online on Springer Global Website.

website:
http://www.smcs.upei.ca/ciaa2018