Invited Talk -- Rewriting Logic and Maude: Concepts and Applications -- Invited Tutorial -- Tree Automata and Term Rewrite Systems -- Regular Papers -- Absolute Explicit Unification -- Termination and Confluence of Higher-Order Rewrite Systems -- A de Bruijn Notation for Higher-Order Rewriting -- Rewriting Techniques in Theoretical Physics -- Normal Forms and Reduction for Theories of Binary Relations -- Parallelism Constraints -- Linear Higher-Order Matching Is NP-Complete -- Standardization and Confluence for a Lambda Calculus with Generalized Applications -- Linear Second-Order Unification and Context Unification with Tree-Regular Constraints -- Word Problems and Confluence Problems for Restricted Semi-Thue Systems -- The Explicit Representability of Implicit Generalizations -- On the Word Problem for Combinators -- An Algebra of Resolution -- Deriving Theory Superposition Calculi from Convergent Term Rewriting Systems -- Right-Linear Finite Path Overlapping Term Rewriting Systems Effectively Preserve Recognizability -- System Descriptions -- System Description: The Dependency Pair Method -- REM (Reduce Elan Machine): Core of the New ELAN Compiler -- TALP: A Tool for the Termination Analysis of Logic Programs.