  This volume contains the formal proceedings of the Third International
Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation
(WPTE 2016), held on 23rd June 2016 in Porto, Portugal, as a satellite event of
the First International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and
Deduction (FSCD 2016). The workshop brought together researchers working on
program transformations, evaluation, and operationally based programming
language semantics, using rewriting methods, in order to share the techniques
and recent developments and to exchange ideas to encourage further activation
of research in this area.
