Advances in Computing Science – ASIAN 2003. Progamming Languages and Distributed Computation Programming Languages and Distributed Computation [electronic resource] : 8th Asian Computing Science Conference, Mumbai, India, December 10-12, 2003. Proceedings / edited by Vijay A. Saraswat.

Achieving Type Safety for Low-Level Code -- Kernel Mode Linux: Toward an Operating System Protected by a Type Theory -- Self-configurable Mirror Servers for Automatic Adaptation to Service Demand Fluctuation -- Information Flow Security for XML Transformations -- Unreliable Failure Detectors via Operational Semantics -- Bankable Postage for Network Services -- Global Predicate Detection under Fine-Grained Modalities -- Combining Hierarchical Specification with Hierarchical Implementation -- Automatic Generation of Simple Lemmas from Recursive Definitions Using Decision Procedures – Preliminary Report – -- Deaccumulation – Improving Provability -- Incentive Compatible Mechanism Based on Linear Pricing Scheme for Single-Minded Auction -- Hierarchical Structure of 1-Safe Petri Nets -- A Calculus for Secure Mobility -- A Calculus of Bounded Capacities -- Paradigm Regained: Abstraction Mechanisms for Access Control -- The Design and Evaluation of a Middleware Library for Distribution of Language Entities -- Generating Optimal Linear Temporal Logic Monitors by Coinduction -- Probabilistic Timed Simulation Verification and Its Application to Stepwise Refinement of Real-Time Systems -- Model Checking Probabilistic Distributed Systems.