This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International
Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications, RTA-98, held in
Tsukuba, Japan, in March/April 1998. The 22 revised full papers
presented were carefully selected from a total of 61 submissions by the
program committee with the assistance of 113 additional referees. The
book covers all current aspects of rewriting including rewriting
systems, term rewriting, string rewriting, theorem proving, resolution,
normalization, unification, equational logics, lambda calculus,
constraint solving, and functional programming.