The first edition of the conference took place in 1996 in London Ontario (Canada), under the name "Workshop on Implementing Automata" (WIA). The WIA workshops continued in the years 1997, 1998, and 1999 and took place in London Ontario (Canada), Rouen (France), and Potsdam (Germany), respectively.
In the year 2000 the first edition under the new name "Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata" (CIAA) took place in London Ontario. The conference continued its annual meetings:
Please visit the CIAA Main Site for more information about CIAA.