Overview
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Ronald V. Book
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Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
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Friedrich Otto
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Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik, Gesamthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-viii
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- Ronald V. Book, Friedrich Otto
Pages 1-7
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- Ronald V. Book, Friedrich Otto
Pages 9-34
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- Ronald V. Book, Friedrich Otto
Pages 35-64
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- Ronald V. Book, Friedrich Otto
Pages 65-89
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- Ronald V. Book, Friedrich Otto
Pages 91-111
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- Ronald V. Book, Friedrich Otto
Pages 113-130
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- Ronald V. Book, Friedrich Otto
Pages 131-146
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- Ronald V. Book, Friedrich Otto
Pages 147-174
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Back Matter
Pages 175-192
About this book
The subject of this book is string-rewriting systems. It is generally accepted that string-rewriting was first introduced by Axel Thue in the early part of this century. In the 1960's and early 1970's, it received renewed attention due to interest in formal language theory. In the 1980's and 1990's, it has received more interest since it can be viewed as a special case of term rewriting, a subject that has become important in the study of automated deduction. Today, string-rewriting is studied by researchers in theoretical computer science and also by researchers interested in the foundations of artificial intelligence. A sketch of the way that the subject has developed is contained in Chapter 0, and the reader is advised to begin with that chapter. Both authors have been active in the field and have lectured on the subject in several universities. Lecture notes have been produced and dis tributed. This monograph is a result of revising and rewriting those notes. It represents an attempt by the authors to present the concepts that the authors consider to be most fundamental and to gather together the most useful results in such a way that they can be understood and used in studies relating to more general rewriting, to automated deduction, and to algo rithmic problems of algebraic structures. This monograph is written for independent study by researchers in the oretical computer science or in the foundations of artificial intelligence.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Ronald V. Book
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Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik, Gesamthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Friedrich Otto
