Rewriting Techniques and Applications: 19th International Conference, RTA 2008 Hagenberg, Austria, July 15-17, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5117)

ThisvolumecontainsthepaperspresentedatRTA2008:19thInternationalC- ference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications held July 15–17th in Hag- berg,AustriaandorganisedbytheResearchInstituteonSymbolicComputation. There were 57 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least four Programme Committee members. The committee decided to accept 30 papers. The submission and Programme Committee work was organised through the EasyChair system. I thank the Programme Committee members for their very e?cient work. My special thanks to Temur Kutsia, Aart Middeldorp, Robert Nieuwenhuis and Maribel Fernandez for their help and advice on many aspects of the RTA - ganisation and traditions. I would also like to thank RTA General Chair Bruno Buchberger. April 2008 Andrei Voronkov Conference Organisation General Chair Bruno Buchberger (Johannes Kepler University Linz) Programme Chair Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester) Organising Committee Chair Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University Linz) Programme Committee Maribel Fern´ andez (King’s College London) Neil Ghani (University of Nottingham) J¨ urgen Giesl (RWTH Aachen) Guillem Godoy (Universidad Polit´ ecnica de Cataluna ˜ ) Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Cachan) Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba) Claude Kirchner (INRIA) Konstantin Korovin (University of Manchester) Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University Linz) Aart Middeldorp (University of Innsbruck) Paliath Narendran (University at Albany - SUNY) Robert Nieuwenhuis (Universidad Polit´ ecnica de Cataluna ˜ ) Micha¨ el Rusinowitch (LORIA-INRIA) Aaron Stump (Washington University in St.