Content
The course will cover advanced and current developments in term rewriting:
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confluence criteria
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context-sensitive rewriting
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proof terms
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tree automata techniques
Basic knowledge of term rewriting (as covered in the bachelor course
Term Rewriting) is assumed.
Schedule
| week | date | topics | slides | solutions | material | 
|---|
| 1 | 07.10 | review bachelor TRS course | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 2 | 14.10 | tree automata techniques | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 3 | 21.10 | tree automata techniques | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 4 | 28.10 | tree automata techniques | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 5 | 04.11 | first-order theory of rewriting | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 6 | 11.11 | tree automata techniques | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 7 | 18.11 | tree automata techniques | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 8 | 25.11 | confluence criteria | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 9 | 02.12 | confluence criteria | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 10 | 09.12 | confluence criteria | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 11 | 13.01 | confluence criteria, tree automata techniques | pdf (1x1, 4x1) | pdf | link | 
| 12 | 20.01 | tree automata techniques | pdf (1x1, 4x1) |  | link | 
| 13 | 27.01 | test
  solution |  |  |  | 
Literature
The course material and slides will be made available online. The same
holds for solutions to selected exercises.