The 21st International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2010) is organized as part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC 2010), together with the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2010), the Conference on Automated Verification (CAV 2010), the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2010), the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2010), the Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2010), the Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2010) and many workshops. FLOC 2010 will be held at the University of Edinburgh.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract Submission:	January 22, 2010
Paper Submission:	January 29, 2010
Notification:	March 8, 2010
Final version:	April 3, 2010

RTA is the major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of rewriting. Typical areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Applications: case studies; analysis of cryptographic protocols; rule-based (functional and logic) programming; symbolic and algebraic computation; theorem proving; system synthesis and verification; proof checking; reasoning about programming languages and logics; program transformation;
• Foundations: matching and unification; narrowing; completion techniques; strategies; rewriting calculi, constraint solving; tree automata; termination; complexity; combination;
• Frameworks: string, term, and graph rewriting; lambda-calculus and higher-order rewriting; constrained rewriting/deduction; categorical and infinitary rewriting; integration of decision procedures; net rewriting; binding techniques;
• Implementation: implementation techniques; parallel execution; rewrite tools; termination checking; abstract machines; explicit substitutions;
• Semantics: equational logic; rewriting logic; rewriting models of programs.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Georg Gottlob (Oxford, UK) and J. Strother Moore (Austin, USA) will be keynote speakers for the RTA block at FLOC. Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Warsaw, Poland) and Vincent van Oostrom (Utrecht, Netherlands) will be invited speakers at RTA.

BEST PAPER AWARD:
A prize of 500 Euro will be given to the best paper as judged by the program committee. The program committee may decline to make the award or may split it among several papers.

CONFERENCE CHAIR:

• Fairouz Kamereddine (Edinburgh, UK)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

• Takahito Aoto (Sendai, Japan)
• Hubert Comon-lundh (Cachan, France)
• Dan Dougherty (Worcester, USA)
• Gilles Dowek (Paris, France)
• Rachid Echahed (Grenoble, France)
• Santiago Escobar (Valencia, Spain)
• Maribel Fernandez (London, UK)
• Guillem Godoy (Barcelona, Spain)
• Bernhard Gramlich (Vienna, Austria)
• Patricia Johann (Glasgow, UK)
• Fairouz Kamareddine (Edinburgh, UK)
• Delia Kesner (Paris, France)
• Christopher Lynch, chair (Potsdam, USA)
• Georg Moser (Innsbruck, Austria)
• Hitoshi Ohsaki (Osaka, Japan)
• Femke van Raamsdonk (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Sophie Tison (Lille, France)
• Johannes Waldmann (Leipzig, Germany)

PUBLICATION:
RTA proceedings will be published by LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics). LIPIcs is open access, meaning that publications will be available online and free of charge, and authors keep the copyright for their papers. LIPIcs publications are indexed in DBLP. STACS and FSTTCS proceedings also appear in LIPIcs. See http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics for more information about LIPIcs.

SUBMISSIONS:
Submissions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions must fall into one of the following categories (to be indicated at submission):

1. Regular research Papers: describing new results; they will be judged on correctness and significance.
2. Papers describing the experience of applying rewriting techniques in other areas; they will be judged on relevance and comparison with other approaches.
3. Problem sets that provide realistic and interesting challenges in the field of rewriting.
4. System descriptions; they should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on usefulness and design.

All submissions will be judged on originality and quality of presentation. Submissions in the first three categories can be up to 15 proceedings pages long, system descriptions up to 10 proceedings pages. Additional material, for instance proof details, may be given in an appendix which is not subject to the page limit. However, submissions must be self-contained within the respective page limit; reading the appendix should not be necessary to assess the merits of a submission.

Submissions are accepted in either Postscript or PDF format.

Abstracts and papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rta2010

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
Submitted works are limited to 15 pages, including references, and must use the LaTeX class lipics-rta.cls, available for download below.

An appendix, at the end of an article, may be included for the purpose of review but will not be included in the text published in the proceedings. An appendix, if included, may or may not be considered by the referees, at their discretion.

• LaTex class lipics-rta.cls
• Additional style file cclicenses.sty
• RTA logo
• Sample document and produced pdf using the class lipics-rta.cls
• bibtex style file
• Sample bibtex file

Questions concerning submissions may be addressed to the PC chair, Christopher Lynch by emailing clynch "AT" clarkson.edu.