Word Equations and Related Topics

This volume contains papers presented at the second
International Workshop   on Word Equations and Related Topics
(IWWERT '91), held at the University ofRouen in October
1991.
The papers are on the following topics: general   solution of
word equations, conjugacy in free inverse monoids,                     general
A- and AX-unification via optimized combination procedures,
wordequations with two variables, a conjecture about
conjugacy in free groups, acase of termination for
associative unification, theorem proving by            combinatorial
optimization, solving string equations with                           constant
restriction, LOP (toward a new implementation of                           Makanin's
algorithm), word unification and transformation of
generalizedequations, unification in the combination of
disjoint theories, on the         subsets of rank two in a free
monoid (a fast decision algorithm), and a      solution of the
complement problem in associative-commutative theories.