This textbook offers a unified, self-contained introduction to the field of term rewriting. Baader
and Nipkow cover all the basic material--abstract reduction systems, termination …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on rewrite systems, which are directed equations
used to compute by repeatedly replacing sub-terms of a given formula with equal terms until …

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge
Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book provides an up …

An information retrieval technique, latent semantic indexing, is used to automatically identify
traceability links from system documentation to program source code. The results of two …

Abstract Term Rewriting Systems play an important role in various areas, such as abstract
data type speci cations, implementations of functional programming languages and …

Since both the coments and the structure of the book appeared to be successful, only minor
changes were made. In particular, some recent work in ATP has been incorporated so that …

This paper presents an overview of the CL-Atse tool, an efficient and versatile automatic
analyser for the security of cryptographic protocols. CL-Atse takes as input a protocol …

Temn Rewriting Systems (TRS in short) are known to be a major tool for expressing non
deterministic computations, because they are based on directed equalltles, with no explicit …

Publisher Summary Mathematical logicians had developed the art of formalizing declarative
knowledge long before the advent of the computer age. But they were interested primarily in …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses completion without failure. The design of
efficient methods for dealing with the equality predicate is one of the major goals in …