New York: Springer, 1992. — 234 p.
The papers in this volume are the result of a workshop held in January 1989 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Topics covered include decision problems, finitely presented simple groups, combinatorial geometry and homology, and automatic groups and related topics.
Decision Problems for Groups — Survey and Reflections
The Word Problem for Solvable Groups and Lie Algebras
Solution of the Conjugacy Problem in One-Relator Groups
A Tour Around Finitely Presented Infinite Simple Groups
The Geometry of Finitely Presented Infinite Simple Groups
The Geometry of Rewriting Systems: A Proof of the Anick-Groves-Squier Theorem
Combings of Groups
Automatic Groups and Amalgams — A Survey
Dehn Functions and l 1 -norms of Finite Presentations
Problems on Automatic Groups