Proceedings 6th International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs

Abstract

This volume contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs (TERMGRAPH 2011). The workshop took place in Saarbruecken, Germany, on April 2nd, 2011, as part of the fourteenth edition of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2011). Research in term and graph rewriting ranges from theoretical questions to practical issues. Computing with graphs handles the sharing of common subexpressions in a natural and seamless way, and improves the efficiency of computations in space and time. Sharing is ubiquitous in several research areas, for instance : the modelling of first- and higher-order term rewriting by (acyclic or cyclic) graph rewriting, the modelling of biological or chemical abstract machines, the implementation techniques of programming languages. Term graphs are also used in automated theorem proving and symbolic computation systems working on shared structures. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in different domains on term and graph transformation and to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in term graph rewriting. These proceedings contain six accepted papers and the abstracts of three invited talks. All submissions were subject to careful refereeing. The topics of accepted papers range over a wide spectrum, including theoretical aspects of term graph rewriting, proof methods, semantics as well as application issues of term graph transformation.