YES Consider the TRS R consisting of the following rewrite rules: f(x,g(x)) -> x f(x,h(y)) -> f(h(x),y) The TRS R is transformed (by dropping rewrite rules whose left-hand sides contain a function symbol which does not occur in any right-hand side) into a TRS R' consisting of the following rewrite rule: f(x,h(y)) -> f(h(x),y) The TRS R is terminating because R' is match-bounded for the set of all ground terms by 1. A tree automaton compatible with match(R') and the set of all ground terms has - 2 states (1,...,2) - 1 final state (1) - 5 transitions: f_1(2,1) -> 1 f_0(1,1) -> 1 h_1(2) -> 2 h_1(1) -> 2 h_0(1) -> 1 __________________________________________________________________ TTTbox (0.004 seconds) - April 13, 2007 Source file - /home/ami/mkorp/Testbench/tpdb-3.2/TRS/SK90/2.55.trs