Rewriting Techniques and Applications

Term-rewriting implementation of equational logic programming.- Optimizing equational programs.- A compiler for conditional term rewriting systems.- How to choose the weights in the Knuth Bendix ordering.- Detecting looping simplifications.- Combinatorial hypermap rewriting.- The word problem for finitely presented monoids and finite canonical rewriting systems.- Term rewriting systems with priorities.- A gap between linear and non linear term-rewriting systems.- Code generator generation based on template-driven target term rewriting.- Descendants of regular language in a class of rewriting systems: Algorithm and complexity of an automata construction.- Groups presented by certain classes of finite length-reducing string-rewriting systems.- Some results about confluence on a given congruence class.- Ground confluence.- Structured contextual rewriting.- Schematization of infinite sets of rewrite rules. Application to the divergence of completion processes.- Completion for rewriting modulo a congruence.- On equational theories, unification and decidability.- A general complete E-unification procedure.- Improving basic narrowing techniques.- Strategy-controlled reduction and narrowing.- Algorithmic complexity of term rewriting systems.- Optimal speedups for parallel pattern matching in trees.