YES Consider the TRS R consisting of the following rewrite rules: f(x,y) -> g1(x,x,y) f(x,y) -> g1(y,x,x) f(x,y) -> g2(x,y,y) f(x,y) -> g2(y,y,x) g1(x,x,y) -> h(x,y) g1(y,x,x) -> h(x,y) g2(x,y,y) -> h(x,y) g2(y,y,x) -> h(x,y) h(x,x) -> x The TRS R is terminating because R is roof-raise-bounded for the set of all ground terms by 2. A raise-compatible and quasi-deterministic tree automaton compatible with roof(R) and the set of all ground terms has - 1 state (1,...,1) - 1 final state (1) - 8 transitions: f_0(1,1) -> 1 h_2(1,1) -> 1 h_1(1,1) -> 1 h_0(1,1) -> 1 g1_1(1,1,1) -> 1 g1_0(1,1,1) -> 1 g2_1(1,1,1) -> 1 g2_0(1,1,1) -> 1 ___________________________________________________________________ TTTbox (0.011 seconds) - April 13, 2007 Source file - /home/ami/mkorp/Testbench/tpdb-3.2/TRS/various/06.trs