Submissions concerning non-classical models of automata and applications are invited for NCMA 2018. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Bio-inspired Automata
• Cellular Automata
• Restarting Automata, Forgetting Automata
• Automata with Additional Resources
• Automata Networks, Cooperation, and Communication
• Quantum Automata
• Other Formal Models Inspired by:
  • Linguistics
  • Bio-Computing
  • Text Processing
  • Document Engineering
  • Self-Assembling

In all these settings:

• Application
• Expressive Capability
• Descriptional Complexity
• Universality, Self-Reproduction
• Decision Problems and their Complexity
• Algebraic Properties