Grammar Systems Workshop 2026

The workshop focuses on new theoretical developments and expanded applications of  Grammar Systems, a  computational framework composed of multiple cooperating grammars or automata, in a generalized sense, providing a powerful and elegant means of capturing distributed, interactive, and parallel processes. Over the years, they have become an established theoretical tool for modelling multi-component and multiagent scenarios, where coordination, communication, and distribution of language generation and recognition play essential roles. As AI tools and biologically inspired or unconventional computing paradigms increasingly emphasize modularity, interaction, and distributed processing, grammar systems offer a powerful theoretical foundation for better understanding the underlying processes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • New and or extended models within the theory of grammar systems
  • Theoretical analysis of generative power, computational and descriptional complexity, constraints, and system interaction
  • Bio-inspired grammatical models and cellular systems related to grammar systems
  • Approaches in unconventional, parallel, or non-classical computing related to grammar systems
  • Connections between grammar systems and other actual areas as machine learning and NLP
  • Applications of grammar systems to parsing, linguistics, and modeling complex syntactic phenomena
  • Connections to programming languages, distributed programming
  • Overview papers on the historical development as well as future perspectives of grammar systems

Paper Submission:

We encourage authors to submit

  • full research papers (12 – 16 pages),
  • position papers (up to 8 pages), or
  • short papers (up to 4 pages),

using the EasyChair page of the Workshop [link to be provided later]. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Accepted Papers will be collected in Workshop Proceedings available online [link to be provided before the Workshop]. Selected papers are intended to be published in a journal undergoing its usual reviewing process.

Workshop Dates:

The workshop will take place at the Trier University during July 30th – July 31st, 2026.

Deadline for submissions: June 1st, 2026, AoE

Author notification: June 29th, 2026 

Final paper submission: July 13th, 2026, AoE

Workshop: 30th and 31st of July, 2026

Invited Speakers:

Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Budapest, Hungary) She is one of the founders of the area.

Program Committee:

Artiom Alhazov (Chișinău, Moldova)

Maurice H. ter Beek (Pisa, Italy)

Henning Bordihn (Potsdam, Germany)

Rodica Ceterchi (Bucharest, Romania)

Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Budapest, Hungary)

Henning Fernau (Trier, Germany)

Rudi Freund (Vienna, Austria, co-chair)

Marian Gheorghe (Bradford, UK)

Maria Dolores Jiménez-López (Tarragona, Spain)

Zbynek Krivka (Brno, Czech Republic)

Victor Mitrana (Bucharest, Romania & Madrid, Spain)

Benedek Nagy (Famagusta, Cyprus)

Marion Oswald (Vienna, Austria, co-chair)

Petr Sosík (Opava & Ostrava, Czech Republic)

KG Subramanian (Chennai, India)

Bianca Truthe (Gießen, Germany)

György Vaszil (Debrecen, Hungary)