This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications, RTA 2006, held in Seattle, WA, USA in August 2006 within the scope of FLoC 2006, the 2006 Federated Logic Conference.
The 23 revised full papers and 4 systems description papers carefully reviewed and selected from 52 initial submissions are presented together with 2 invited talks and a plenary talk of the hosting FLoC conference. The papers are organized in topical sections on constraints and optimization, equational reasoning, system verification, lambda calculus, theorem proving, system descriptions, termination, and higher-order rewriting and unification.
