Tom Head and Dennis Pixton,
Splicing and regularity (12/15/04) ( dvi, pdf, or postscript)
in Recent Advances in Formal Languages and Applications (C. Martin-Vide, V. Mitrana, Z. Esik, eds.), Studies in Computational Intelligence, v. 25, Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 119--147.

This is an expository chapter on splicing theory, based on lectures by Tom Head at the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications, in Tarragona, Spain, Summer 2004.