The ASIAN conference series provides a forum for researchers throughout Asia to
present cutting-edge results in yearly-themed areas of computer science, to discuss
advances in these fields, and to promote interaction with researchers from other
continents.Accordingly, the conferencemoves every year to a different center of research
throughout Asia: previous editions were held in Tokyo, Kunming (China),
Bangkok, Mumbai, Hanoi, Penang (Malaysia), Phuket (Thailand), Manila,
Kathmandu, Singapore, and Pathumthani (Thailand) where ASIAN was initiated
by AIT, INRIA and UNU/IIST in 1995. The 12th edition took place in Doha,
Qatar, during December 9–11, 2007.
Each year, the conference focuses on a different theme at the cutting edge
of computer science research. The theme of ASIAN 2007 was “Computer and
Network Security”. It has been a tradition of ASIAN to invite three of the
most influential researchers in the focus area, one from Asia, one from Europe
and one from the Americas, to discuss their work and their vision for the field.
This year’s distinguished speakers were Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers University,
Sweden), Joshua Guttman (MITRE, USA) and Kazuhiko Kato (University of
Tsukuba, Japan).