Advances in Computer Science - ASIAN 2004. Higher-Level Decision Making

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Michael J. Maher (Ed.)

Advances in Computer Science ASIAN 2004 Higher-Level Decision Making 9th Asian Computing Science Conference Dedicated to Jean-Louis Lassez on the Occasion of His 5th Cycle Birthday Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 8-10, 2004 Proceedings

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Volume Editor Michael J. Maher University of New South Wales National ICT Australia, Sydney Laboratory Locked Bag 6016, Sydney NSW 1466, Australia E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): F.1-2, H.4, F.3, I.2, D.3, C.2.4, E.3, I.4, G.2 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-24087-X Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11355922 06/3142 543210

Preface

The 9th Asian Computing Science Conference was held in Chiang Mai in December 2004. This volume contains papers that were presented at that conference. The conference was dedicated to Jean-Louis Lassez, on the occasion of his fifth cycle (60th year) birthday. Its theme was “higher-level decision-making”. Philippe Flajolet was invited to give the opening keynote address, while Yuzuru Tanaka and Phillip Rogaway were also keynote speakers. In addition to the keynote speakers, distinguished colleagues of Jean-Louis Lassez were invited to present talks in his honour. Many of those talks are represented by papers in this volume, but I would like to thank all those speakers: Jonathan Bernick Alex Brodsky Vij