6th International Workshop
      
      Weighted Automata: Theory and Applications
        WATA 2012
May 29 – June 2, 2012, Dresden, Germany
      May 29 – June 2, 2012, Dresden, Germany
List of Tutorials
- J. Esparza and M. Luttenberger (München, Germany).
 Derivation tree analysis of fixed-point equations over semirings
- O. Kupferman (Jerusalem, Israel).
 Weighted Automata
- A. Sarkar (Burnaby, Canada).
 Strings to Trees to Strings: A Survey of Tree Adjoining Grammars
List of Survey Lectures
- F. Drewes (Umeå, Sweden).
 Weighted Automata, Coloured Pictures, and More
- Z. Ésik (Szeged, Hungary).
 Axiomatizing weighted bisimulation
- P. Gastin and B. Monmege (Cachan, France).
 Efficient computations with pebbles
- L. Kallmeyer (Düsseldorf, Germany).
 Weighted Deductive Parsing using Probabilistic Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
- K. Knight (Marina del Rey, Califormia).
 Generative Processes for Human Language Translation: Strings, Trees, and Graphs
- K. Larsen (Aalborg, Denmark).
 From Priced Timed Automata to Energy Games
- K. Quaas (Leipzig, Germany).
 The Fruitful interplay of Weighted Automata and Weighted Timed Automata
List of Technical Contributions
List of technical contributions accepted for presentation (in alphabetic order):
- M. Berlinkov (Ekaterinburg).
 Markov Chains and Synchronizing Automata
- B. Bollig (Cachan), P. Gastin (Cachan), B. Monmege (Cachan), M. Zeitoun (Bordeaux).
 Series and Infinite Sums: Automata, Expressions, and Logic.
- F. Braune, N. Seemann, D. Quernheim, A. Maletti (Stuttgart).
 Machine Translation with Multi Bottom-up Tree Transducers.
- J. Bubenzer (Potsdam), B.W. Watson (Stellenbosch).
 A Minimality-Preserving Regular Calculus of ADFA’s.
- M. Büchse, T. Dietze, J. Osterholzer, A. Fischer, L. Leuschner (Dresden).
 VANDA – A Statistical Machine Translation Toolkit.
- M. Büchse, A. Fischer (Dresden).
 Deciding the Twins Property for Weighted Tree Automata over Extremal Semifields.
- M. Ćirić, J. Ignjatović (Niš).
 Fuzziness in Automata Theory: Why? How?
- G. Crosswhite (Queensland).
 Embracing divergence: an approach to generalizing weighted automata to infinite words with applications in quantum simulation.
- N. Damljanović, M. Ćirić, J. Ignjatović (Niš).
 Bisimulations for weighted automata.
- M. Droste, D. Götze, S. Märcker, I. Meinecke (Leipzig).
 Weighted Tree Automata over Valuation Monoids and Their Characterization by Weighted Logics.
- U. Fahrenberg (Rennes), A. Legay (Rennes), K. Quaas (Leipzig).
 Büchi Conditions for Generalized Energy Automata.
- B. Felgenhauer (Innsbruck), S. Schwarz (Zwickau), J. Waldmann (Leipzig).
 Size-Change Termination and Tropical Matrix Monoids.
- N. Fijalkow (Paris), H. Gimbert (Bordeaux), Y. Oualhadj (Bordeaux).
 Deciding the Value 1 Problem of Probabilistic Leaktight Automata.
- Z. Fülöp (Szeged), H. Vogler (Dresden).
 Weighted Tree Automata and Branching Transitive Closure Logics.
- M. Huber, Chr. Kölbl (Augsburg).
 Weighted Automata as Semantic Representation.
- J. Ignjatović, M. Ćirić, V. Simović (Niš).
 Subsystems of Fuzzy Transition Systems.
- I. Jančić, Z. Jančić, J. Ignjatović, M. Ćirić (Niš).
 Fuzzy automata: Determinization using simulations.
- Z. Jančić, I. Jančić, J. Ignjatović, M. Ćirić (Niš).
 Fuzzy and weighted automata: Canonization methods.
- B. Jurish (Berlin-Brandenburg), K.-M. Würzner (Potsdam).
 Multi-threaded composition of weighted finite-state transducers.
- E, Kabanova (Novosibirsk).
 Distance between formulas of the five-valued Lukasiewicz logic and the uncertainty measure of expert statements.
- D. Kirsten (Berlin).
 Decidability, Undecidability, and PSPACE-Completeness of the Twins Property in the Tropical Semiring.
- K. Lehmann, R. Peñaloza (Dresden).
 The Complexity of Computing the Behaviour of Weighted Büchi Automata over Lattices.
- S. Lombardy, J. Sakarovitch (Paris).
 On the weighted closure problem.
- A. Maletti, D. Quernheim (Stuttgart).
 Pushing for weighted tree automata.
- I. Meinecke, K. Quaas (Leipzig).
 Parameterized Model Checking of Weighted Networks.
- V. Perevoshchikov (Leipzig).
 Büchi-Type Theorems for Unambiguous, Functional and Multi-Weighted Automata.
- T. Stüber (Dresden).
 Consistency of Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars.
- Th. Weidner (Leipzig).
 Probabilistic Automata and Probabilistic Logic.
