Advances in Computing Science - ASIAN'98: 4th Asian Computing Science Conference, Manila, The Philippines, December 8-10, 1998, Proceedings / Edition 1

by Jieh Hsiang, Atsushi Ohori

Overview

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN'98, held in Manila, The Philippines, in December 1998.
The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 43 submissions. Also included are a few invited contributions. Among the topics covered are automated deduction, proof theory, rewriting systems, program semantics, distributed processing, algorithms, and graph-theoretical aspects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540653882
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/10/1998
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #1538
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

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).