Advances in Computer Science - ASIAN 2004. Higher-Level Decision Making [electronic resource] : 9th Asian Computing Science Conference. Dedicated to Jean-Louis Lassez on the Occasion of His 5th Birthday. Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 8-10, 2004. Proceedings / edited by Michael J. Maher.

Keynote Papers -- Counting by Coin Tossings -- On the Role Definitions in and Beyond Cryptography -- Meme Media for the Knowledge Federation Over the Web and Pervasive Computing Environments -- Contributed Papers -- Probabilistic Space Partitioning in Constraint Logic Programming -- Chi-Square Matrix: An Approach for Building-Block Identification -- Design Exploration Framework Under Impreciseness Based on Register-Constrained Inclusion Scheduling -- Hiord: A Type-Free Higher-Order Logic Programming Language with Predicate Abstraction -- Assessment Aggregation in the Evidential Reasoning Approach to MADM Under Uncertainty: Orthogonal Versus Weighted Sum -- Learnability of Simply-Moded Logic Programs from Entailment -- A Temporalised Belief Logic for Specifying the Dynamics of Trust for Multi-agent Systems -- Using Optimal Golomb Rulers for Minimizing Collisions in Closed Hashing -- Identity-Based Authenticated Broadcast Encryption and Distributed Authenticated Encryption -- Deniable Partial Proxy Signatures -- Formal Concept Mining: A Statistic-Based Approach for Pertinent Concept Lattice Construction -- A Robust Approach to Content-Based Musical Genre Classification and Retrieval Using Multi-feature Clustering -- Registration of 3D Range Images Using Particle Swarm Optimization -- Zero-Clairvoyant Scheduling with Inter-period Constraints -- A Novel Texture Synthesis Based Algorithm for Object Removal in Photographs -- Highly Efficient and Effective Techniques for Thai Syllable Speech Recognition -- Robot Visual Servoing Based on Total Jacobian -- Invited Papers -- Online Stochastic and Robust Optimization -- Optimal Constraint Decomposition for Distributed Databases -- Adaptive Random Testing -- Minimal Unsatisfiable Sets: Classification and Bounds -- LPOD Answer Sets and Nash Equilibria -- Graph Theoretic Models for Reasoning About Time -- Rule-Based Programming and Proving: The ELAN Experience Outcomes -- Towards Flexible Graphical Communication Using Adaptive Diagrams -- A Framework for Compiler Driven Design Space Exploration for Embedded System Customization -- Spectral-Based Document Retrieval -- Metadata Inference for Document Retrieval in a Distributed Repository -- A Simple Theory of Expressions, Judgments and Derivations -- Reactive Framework for Resource Aware Distributed Computing -- The Feature Selection and Intrusion Detection Problems -- On the BDD of a Random Boolean Function -- Concurrent Constraint-Based Memory Machines: A Framework for Java Memory Models (Summary).