This volume covers the 10th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications held in July 1999. It includes such topics as constraint solving, termination, deduction and higher order rewriting, graphs, complexity, tree automata, context-sensitive rewriting and string rewriting.

Session 1.- Solved Forms for Path Ordering Constraints.- Jeopardy.- Strategic Pattern Matching.- Session 2:.- On the Strong Normalization of Natural Deduction with Permutation-Conversions.- Normalisation in Weakly Orthogonal Rewriting.- Strong Normalization of Proof Nets Modulo Structural Congruences.- Session 3: Invited Talk.- Hierarchical Graph Decompositions Defined by Grammars and Logical Formulas.- Session 4:.- Undecidability of the Part of the Theory of Ground Term Algebra Modulo an AC Symbol.- Deciding the Satisfiability of Quantifier Free Formulae on One-Step Rewriting.- A New Result about the Decidability of the Existential One-Step Rewriting Theory.- Session 5:.- A Fully Syntactic AC-RPO.- Theory Path Orderings.- A Characterisation of Multiply Recursive Functions with Higman’s Lemma.- Session 6:.- Deciding the Word Problem in the Union of Equational Theories Sharing Constructors.- Normalization via Rewrite Closures.- Test Sets for the Universal and Existential Closure of Regular Tree Languages.- Session 7: Invited Tutorial.- Higher-Order Rewriting.- Session 8: System Descriptions.- The Maude System.- TOY: A Multiparadigm Declarative System.- UniMoK: A System for Combining Equational Unification Algorithms.- : A Laboratory for Rapid Term Graph Rewriting.- Session 9:.- Decidability for Left-Linear Growing Term Rewriting Systems.- Transforming Context-Sensitive Rewrite Systems.- Context-Sensitive AC-rewriting.- Session 10:.- The Calculus of Algebraic Constructions.- HOL-??: An Intentional First-Order Expression of Higher-Order Logic.- Session 11: Invited Talk.- On the Connections between Rewriting and Formal Language Theory.- Session 12:.- A Rewrite System Associated with Quadratic Pisot Units.- Fast Rewriting of Symmetric Polynomials.- OnImplementation of Tree Synchronized Languages.

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