Where Mathematics, Computer Science, Linguistics and Biology Meet: Essays in honour of Gheorghe Paun

Preface. Contributing Authors. 1. The Games of His Life; S. Marcus. Part I: Grammars and Grammar Systems. 2. Deterministic Stream X-Machines Based on Grammar Systems; T. Balanescu, et al. 3. Some Ghosts that Arise in a Spliced Linguistic String: Evidence from Catalan; G. Bel-Enguix. 4. On Size Complexity of Context-Free Returning Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems; E. Csuhaj-Varjú. 5. Subregularly Controlled Derivations: Restrictions by Syntactic Parameters; J. Dassow. 6. Neo-Modularity and Colonies; J. Kelemen, et al. 7. Sewing Contexts and Mildly Context-Sensitive Languages; C. Martín-Vide, et al. 8. Towards Grammars of Decision Algorithms; L. Polkowski, A. Skowron. Part II: Automata. 9. Computational Complementarity for Probabilistic Automata; C.S. Calude, et al. 10. Acceptance of omega-Languages by Communicating Deterministic Turing Machines; R. Freund, L. Staiger. 11. Counter Machines and the Safety and Disjointness Problems for Database Queries with Linear Constraints; O.H. Ibarra, et al. 12. Automata Arrays and Context-Free Languages; M. Kutrib. 13. On Special Forms of Restarting Automata; F. Mráz, et al. 14. The Time Dimension of Computation Models; Sheng Yu. Part III: Languages and Combinatorics. 15. An Infinite Sequence of Full AFL-Structures, Each of Which Possesses an Infinite Hierarchy; P.R.J. Asveld. 16. Trellis Languages; A. Atanasiu. 17. Pictures, Layers, Double Stranded Molecules: OnMulti-Dimensional Sentences; P. Bottoni. 18. Transduction in Polypodes; S. Bozapalidis. 19. Some Algebraic Properties of Contexts and Their Applications to Contextual Languages; R. Ceterchi. 20. On Fatou Properties of Rational Languages; C. Choffrut, J. Karhumäki. 21. Multiple Keyword Patterns in Context-Free Languages; P. Dömösi, M. Ito. 22. Reading Words in Graphs Generated by Hyperedge Replacement; F. Drewes, H.-J. Kreowski. 23. Regularly Controlled Formal Power Series; H. Fernau, W. Kuich. 24. Forbidden Subsequences and Permutations Sortable on Two Parallel Stacks; T. Harju, L. Ilie. 25. Approximate Identification and Finite Elasticity; S. Kobayashi, et al. 26. Insertion of Languages and Differential Semirings; G. Thierrin. Part IV: Models of Molecular Computing. 27. Molecular Structures; G. Ciobanu. 28. A Characterization of Non-Iterated Splicing with Regular Rules; R. Dassen, et al. 29. Universal and Sample Operations for Gene Assembly in Ciliates; A. Ehrenfeucht, et al. 30. Semi-Simple Splicing Systems; E. Goode, D. Pixton. 31. Writing By Methylation Proposed For Aqueous Computing; T. Head. 32. Context-Free Recombinations; J. Kari, L. Kari. 33. Simplified Simple H Systems; K. Krithivasan, A. Arasu. 34. On Some Forms of Splicing; V. Manca. 35. Time-Varying Distributed H-Systems of Degree 2 Generate All Recursively Enumerable Languages; M. Margenstern, Y. Rogozhin.