Advances in computer science - ASIAN 2004 : Higher level decision making ; 9th Asian computing ccience conference ; Dedicated to Jean-Louis Lassez on the occasion of his 5th cycle birthday, Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 8-10, 2004

Constitutes the proceedings of the 9th Asian Computing Science Conference was held in Chiang Mai in Decem-ber 2004. This volume contains papers that were presented at that conference. Its theme was “higher-level decision-making”.Philippe Flajolet was invited to give the opening keynote address, whileYuzuru Tanaka and Phillip Rogaway werealso keynote speakers. In additionto the keynote speakers, distinguished colleagues of Jean-Louis Lassez were in-vited to present talks in his honour. Many of those talks are represented bypapers in this volume, this book Include Topics : Theory of Computation / Artificial Intelligence / Software Engineering / Programming and Operating Systems / Cryptology / Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science / Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)