The ''Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics'' (JALC) is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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of
computer science
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. It was established in 1965 as the ''Journal of Information Processing and Cybernetics'' (German: ''Elektronische Informationsverarbeitung und Kybernetik'') and obtained its current title in 1996 with volume numbering reset to 1. The main focus of the journal is on
automata theory
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,
formal language
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theory, and
combinatorics
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.
The editor-in-chief of the journal was, until 2015,
Jürgen Dassow of the
Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg. From 2016, the editors in chief are
Markus Holzer and
Martin Kutrib, and the publication is handled by the Institute of Informatics at the
University of Giessen
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.
Bibliographic databases indexing the journal include the
ACM Guide to Computing Literature, the
Digital Bibliography & Library Project,
Information at DBLP
/ref> the MathSciNet
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database, and the Zentralblatt MATH
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.
Most cited articles
According to Google Scholar
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, the following articles have been cited most often (≥ 100 times):
# Mehryar Mohri. Semiring frameworks and algorithms for shortest-distance problems. Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics ''7''(3):321–350 (2002)
# Rolf Wiehagen. Limes-Erkennung rekursiver Funktionen durch spezielle Strategien. ''Elektronische Informationsverarbeitung und Kybernetik'' ''12''(1/2):93–99 (1976)
# Gheorghe Păun. Regular extended H systems are computationally universal. ''Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics'' ''1''(1):27–36 (1996)
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.jalc.de
Computer science journals
Theoretical computer science
Academic journals established in 1996
Quarterly journals
English-language journals