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.

Running to more than 360 pages, and complete with online files and updates, this book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 11th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN 2006, held in Tokyo, Japan. The 17 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing from 115 submissions. The papers cover theory, practice, applications, and experiences related to secure software.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN 2007, held in Doha, Qatar, in December 2007. Covering all current aspects of computer and network security, the papers are organized in topical sections on program security, computer security, access control, protocols, intrusion detection, network security, and safe execution.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN'99, held in Phuket, Thailand, in December 1999. The 28 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions and 11 short presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 114 submissions. Among the topics addressed are programming theory, formal methods, automated reasoning, verification, embedded systems, real-time systems, distributed systems, and mobile computing.

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.

The Asian Computing Science Conference (ASIAN) series was initiated in 1995 to provide a forum for researchers in computer science in Asia to meet and to promote interaction with researchers from other regions. The previous ?ve conferences were held, respectively, in Bangkok, Singapore, Kathmandu, Manila, and Phuket. The proceedings were published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series of Springer-Verlag. This year’s conference (ASIAN2000) attracted 61 submissions from which 18 papers were selected through an electronic program committee (PC) meeting. The themes for this year’s conference are: – Logics in Computer Science – Data Mining – Networks and Performance The key note speaker for ASIAN2000 is Jean Vuillemin (ENS, France) and the invited speakers are Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (U. Melbourne, Australia) and Alain Jean-Marie (LIRMM, France). We thank them for accepting our - vitation. This year’s conference is sponsored by the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), INRIA (France), the National University of Singapore (Singapore), and UNU/IIST (Macau SAR, China). We thank all these institutions for their continued support of the ASIAN series. This year’s conference will be held in Penang, Malaysia. We are much obliged to Universiti Sains Malaysia and Penang State Government for providing the conference venue and to Dr. Abdullah Zawawi Haji Talib for making the local arrangements. We also wish to thank the PC members and the large number of referees for thesubstantialworkputinbytheminassessingthesubmittedpapers.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN 2003, held in Mumbai, India in December 2003. The 16 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. Among the topics addressed are type theory for operating systems protection, self configurable servers, network services, predicate detection, hierarchical specification, proof theory, electronic auctions, secure mobile computing, programming casculi, access control, middleware, program logic, real-time systems, and probabilistic distributed systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN 2002, held in Hanoi, Vietnam in December 2002. The 17 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The conference was devoted to Internet computing and modeling, grid computing, peer-to-peer systems, and cluster computing. Among the issues addressed are scalable infrastructure for global data grids, distributed checkpointing, list coloring, parallel debugging, combinatorial optimization, video on demand servers, caching, grid environments, network enabled servers, multicast communication, dynamic resource allocation, traffic engineering, path-vector protocols, Web-based Internet broadcasting, Web-based middleware, and subscription-based Internet services.