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Rule-based Computation and Deduction

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Rule-based Computation and Deduction
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Publisher: ESSLLI
Number of pages: 100

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This text first introduces the concept of rewriting which is behind rule-based systems. Then the rewriting logic and the rewriting calculus are defined and shown to be especially suited to describing concurrent and non-deterministic computations.

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