DCFS 2016 - Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems will be held in Bucharest, Romania, July 6-8, 2016.

In 2002 DCFS was the result of the merger of DCAGRS (Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures) and FDSR (Formal Descriptions and Software Reliability).

• DCAGRS was previously held in Magdeburg (1999), London (2000) and Vienna (2001).
• FDSR was previously held in Paderborn (1998), Boca Raton (1999) and San Jose (2000).

Since 2002 DCFS was held succesively in London, Ontario, Canada (2002), Budapest, Hungary (2003), London, Ontario, Canada (2004), Como, Italy, EU (2005), Las Cruces, US (2006), and Novy Smokovek (High Tatras), Slovakia, EU (2007), Charlottetown, Canada (2008), Magdeburg, Germany, EU (2009), Saskatoon, Canada (2010) Giessen, Germany, EU (2011), Porto, Portugal, EU (2012), London, Ontario, Canada (2013), Turku, Finland, EU (2014), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (2015).

DCFS 2016 working conference will be jointly organized by the IFIP Working Group 1.2 on Descriptional Complexity and the Department of Computer Science of University of Bucharest.

The working conference is sponsored by the Department of Computer Science of University of Bucharest and other sponsors.

• CiE 2016: Pursuit of the Universal , Paris, France, June 27 -- July 1, 2016,

• ICALP 2016 The 43^rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, Rome, Italy, July 11-15, 2016,
• CIAA 2016 The 21^st International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, Seoul, South Korea, July 19 - 22, 2016, and
• DLT 2016 20^th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, Montreal/Quebec, Canada, August 1-4, 2016,