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Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems. 26th IFIP WG 1.02 International Conference, DCFS 2025 Loughborough, UK, July 22–24, 2025. Proceedings
The 26th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (DCFS 2025) was held in Loughborough, UK, on July 22–24, 2025 and was organized by the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough University, in association with the IFIP Working Group 1.02 “Descriptional Complexity”. DCFS is an annual international conference concerning the descriptional complexity of formal systems and structures (and its applications). Topics of interest are related to all aspects of descriptional complexity, including but not limited to the following
–Automata, grammars, languages and other formal systems; various modes of operation and complexity measures;
- Succinctness of description of objects, state-explosion-like phenomena;
- Circuit complexity of Boolean functions and related measures;
- Size complexity of formal systems;
- Structural complexity of formal systems;
- Trade-offs between computational models and mode of operation;
- Applications of formal systems—for instance in software and hardware testing, in dialogue systems, in systems modeling or in modeling natural languages—and their complexity constraints;
- Co-operating formal systems;
- Size or structural complexity of formal systems for modeling natural languages;
- Complexity aspects related to the combinatorics of words;
- Complexity in resource-bounded or structure-bounded environments;
- Structural complexity as related to descriptional complexity;
- Frontiers between decidability and undecidability;
-Universality and reversibility;
- Nature-motivated (bio-inspired) architectures and unconventional models of computing ;
-Blum Static (Kolmogorov/Chaitin) complexity, algorithmic information.