Atsushi Ohori - Böcker

The Fourth International Workshop on Database Programming Languages - Object Models and Languages (DBPL-4) took place in Manhattan, New York City, 30 August-1 September 1993. The areas of interest and the format of DBPL-4 focused on the integration of programming languages, object models, type systems and database systems. As in the previous DBPL workshops, the setting was informal, allowing the participants to actively discuss and argue about the ideas presented in the talks. The comments and remarks made by the participants during and after the presentations were taken into account in the preparation of the final versions of the papers. The result, we believe, is a set of excellent papers. The DBPL sequence is closely related to the sequence of International Workshops on Persistent Object Systems (POS), first started in 1985. While the DBPL workshops focus on language and model issues, the POS workshops have focused on implementation issues; thus the two sequences complement each other. Many researchers participate in both workshop series. The eight sessions of the technical program of DBPL-4 were as follows: 1. Bulk types and their query languages (two sessions). 2. Object models and languages. 3. Data types with order. 4. Mechanisms to support persistence, reflection, and extensibility. 5. Query optimization and integrity constraints. 6. Logic-based models. 7. Implementation and performance issues.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2003, held in Beijing, China in November 2003.The 24 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are devoted to concurrency and parallelism, language implementation and optimization, mobile computation and security, program analysis and verification, program transformation and calculation, programming paradigms and language design, programming techniques and applications, program semantics, categorical and logical foundations, tools and environments, type theory and type systems.

This text presents the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Types in Compilation, held in Kyoto in March 1998. The 13 selected papers and three invited papers are organized into topical sections which cover typed intermediate languages, program analyses, program transformations and code generation, memory management, partial evaluation and run-time code generation and distributed computing.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth Asian Computing Science Conference (ASIAN98), held December 8{10, 1998, in Manila, the Philippines. The previous three ASIAN conferences were also published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volumes 1023 (Bangkok, 1995), 1179 (Singapore, 1996), and 1345 (Kathmandu, 1997). Initiated in 1995 by the Asian Institute of Technology in partnership with INRIAandUNU,the ASIANconferenceseriesaimsatprovidingaforuminAsia fortheexchangeofthemostrecentresearchideasandresultsincomputerscience andinformationtechnology.Whileeachyearfeaturesseveralemphasizedthemes, the 1998 conference focuses on the research areas of (1) formal reasoning and veri cation,(2) programminglanguages,(3) dataand knowledgerepresentation, and (4) networking and Web computing. There were 43 submissions to the conference, out of which 17 were chosen for presentation and inclusion in this proceedings. The papers were submitted fromAustralia,Brazil,China,France,Germany,India,Italy,Japan,Korea,New Zealand, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Th- land, the United Kindom, and the United States of America.The program c- mittee meeting was held virtually over the Internet. The selection was nalized after a fteen-day period of lively discussion. Each paper was carefully reviewed and received at least three reports. In addition to 17 highly selective papers, this year's conference also features a keynotespeechby Jeannette M.Wing (CarnegieMellonUniversity)onFormal Methods:Past,Present,andFuture,twoinvitedtalksbySusumuHayashi(Kobe University) on Testing Proofs by Examples and Claude Kirchner (INRIA) on The RewritingCalculus as a Semantics ofELAN, and two tutorials by Tomasz Janowski(UNU/IIST)onSemanticsandLogicforProvableFault-Tolerance and R.K. Shyamasundar (TIFR) onMobile Computation: Calculus and Languages.