Invited Talks -- Rewriting, Inference, and Proof -- Twenty Years of Rewriting Logic -- Termination and Narrowing -- Proving Termination in the Context-Sensitive Dependency Pair Framework -- A Dependency Pair Framework for A???C-Termination -- Folding Variant Narrowing and Optimal Variant Termination -- Tools -- A Church-Rosser Checker Tool for Conditional Order-Sorted Equational Maude Specifications -- A Maude Coherence Checker Tool for Conditional Order-Sorted Rewrite Theories -- The K Framework -- K-Maude: A Rewriting Based Tool for Semantics of Programming Languages -- Collecting Semantics under Predicate Abstraction in the K Framework -- Applications and Semantics -- Concurrent Rewriting Semantics and Analysis of Asynchronous Digital Circuits -- A Formal Pattern Architecture for Safe Medical Systems -- On the Behavioral Semantics of Real-Time Domain Specific Visual Languages -- Multiset Rewriting: A Semantic Framework for Concurrency with Name Binding -- Maude Model Checking and Debugging -- The Linear Temporal Logic of Rewriting Maude Model Checker -- Enhancing the Debugging of Maude Specifications -- Rewrite Engines -- The Third Rewrite Engines Competition.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications, WRLA 2010, held as a satellite event of ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, in March 2010. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on termination and narrowing; tools; the K framework; applications and semantics; maude model checking and debugging; and rewrite engines.