From the text: The purpose of the NCMA workshop series is to promote a deeper and interdisciplinary coverage of this particular area, and to foster new insights and substantial progress in computer science as a whole. The Eighth Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications (NCMA 2016) was organized by the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, August 29–30, 2016. The aim of the workshop was to provide an opportunity for researchers who work on different aspects of non-classical and classical models of automata and grammars to exchange and develop novel ideas.
For the seventh workshop, see [Zbl 1360.00127].