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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.