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 Birthday. Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 8-10, 2004. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN 2004, dedicated to Jean-Louis Lassez on the occasion of his 60th birthday and held in Chiang Mai, Thailand in December 2004. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote papers and 16 invited papers honouring Jean-Louis Lassez were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The contributed papers are focusing on higher-level decision making, whereas the invited papers address a broader variety of topics in theoretical computer science. Front Matter....Pages - Counting by Coin Tossings....Pages 1-12 On the Role Definitions in and Beyond Cryptography....Pages 13-32 Meme Media for the Knowledge Federation Over the Web and Pervasive Computing Environments....Pages 33-47 Probabilistic Space Partitioning in Constraint Logic Programming....Pages 48-62 Chi-Square Matrix: An Approach for Building-Block Identification....Pages 63-77 Design Exploration Framework Under Impreciseness Based on Register-Constrained Inclusion Scheduling....Pages 78-92 Hiord : A Type-Free Higher-Order Logic Programming Language with Predicate Abstraction....Pages 93-108 Assessment Aggregation in the Evidential Reasoning Approach to MADM Under Uncertainty: Orthogonal Versus Weighted Sum....Pages 109-127 Learnability of Simply-Moded Logic Programs from Entailment....Pages 128-141 A Temporalised Belief Logic for Specifying the Dynamics of Trust for Multi-agent Systems....Pages 142-156 Using Optimal Golomb Rulers for Minimizing Collisions in Closed Hashing....Pages 157-168 Identity-Based Authenticated Broadcast Encryption and Distributed Authenticated Encryption....Pages 169-181 Deniable Partial Proxy Signatures....Pages 182-194 Formal Concept Mining: A Statistic-Based Approach for Pertinent Concept Lattice Construction....Pages 195-211 A Robust Approach to Content-Based Musical Genre Classification and Retrieval Using Multi-feature Clustering....Pages 212-222 Registration of 3D Range Images Using Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 223-235 Zero-Clairvoyant Scheduling with Inter-period Constraints....Pages 236-247 A Novel Texture Synthesis Based Algorithm for Object Removal in Photographs....Pages 248-258 Highly Efficient and Effective Techniques for Thai Syllable Speech Recognition....Pages 259-270 Robot Visual Servoing Based on Total Jacobian....Pages 271-285 Online Stochastic and Robust Optimization....Pages 286-300 Optimal Constraint Decomposition for Distributed Databases....Pages 301-319 Adaptive Random Testing....Pages 320-329 Minimal Unsatisfiable Sets: Classification and Bounds....Pages 330-342 LPOD Answer Sets and Nash Equilibria....Pages 343-351 Graph Theoretic Models for Reasoning About Time....Pages 352-362 Rule-Based Programming and Proving: The ELAN Experience Outcomes....Pages 363-379 Towards Flexible Graphical Communication Using Adaptive Diagrams....Pages 380-394 A Framework for Compiler Driven Design Space Exploration for Embedded System Customization....Pages 395-406 Spectral-Based Document Retrieval....Pages 407-417 Metadata Inference for Document Retrieval in a Distributed Repository....Pages 418-436 A Simple Theory of Expressions, Judgments and Derivations....Pages 437-451 Reactive Framework for Resource Aware Distributed Computing....Pages 452-467 The Feature Selection and Intrusion Detection Problems....Pages 468-482 On the BDD of a Random Boolean Function....Pages 483-493 Concurrent Constraint-Based Memory Machines: A Framework for Java Memory Models (Summary)....Pages 494-508 Back Matter....Pages - Assume a blind man (a computer?) wants to locate a single black sheep amongst a flock of N  1 white sheep.