Advances in Computing Science - ASIAN'98 [electronic resource] : 4th Asian Computing Science Conference, Manila, The Philippines, December 8-10, 1998, Proceedings /

Invited Talk 1 -- Testing Proofs by Examples -- Session 1 -- Rigid Reachability -- Mechanizing Reasoning about Large Finite Tables in a Rewrite Based Theorem Prover -- A Polymorphic Language Which Is Typable and Poly-step -- Cut Elimination for Classical Proofs as Continuation Passing Style Computation -- Tutorial 1 -- Semantics and Logic for Provable Fault-Tolerance, A Tutorial -- Invited Talk 2 -- The Rewriting Calculus as a Semantics of ELAN -- Session 2 -- Tried Linear Hashing -- A New Factoring Algorithm for Magic Predicates -- An Optimal Parallel Algorithm for the Perfect Dominating Set Problem on Distance-Hereditary Graphs -- Session 3 -- Taxonomy and Expressiveness of Preemption: A Syntactic Approach -- Exploring Regional Locality in Distributed Shared Memory -- Guaranteed Mutually Consistent Checkpointing in Distributed Computations -- Session 4 -- Type Inference for First-Class Messages with Feature Constraints -- Two Flavors of Offine Partial Evaluation -- First-Class Contexts in ML -- Keynote Address -- Formal Methods: Past, Present, and Future -- Session 5 -- A Comparison of Petri Net Semantics under the Collective Token Philosophy -- Bisimulation Lattice of Chi Processes -- Eventuality in LOTOS with a Disjunction Operator -- Towards a Characterisation of Finite-State Message-Passing Systems -- Tutorial 2 -- Mobile Computation: Calculus and Languages (A Tutorial).