The 9th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing, was held in Phuket, Thailand on August 6-8, 2008. This publication captures 20 of the conference's most promising papers.

Stopping Criterion Selection for Efficient Semi-supervised Time Series Classification.- Enhancing the Blockage of Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT) Using Adaptive PMG Algorithm.- Spatio-temporal Facial Expression Recognition Using Optical Flow and HMM.- An Approach for Anomaly Intrusion Detection Based on Causal Knowledge-Driven Diagnosis and Direction.- Challenges Relating to RFID Implementation within the Electronic Supply Chain Management - A Practical Approach.- Design and Implementation of Clustering File Backup Server Using File Fingerprint.- Aspect Oriented Testing Frameworks for Embedded Software.- Analysis on Malicious Peer’s Behavior of the P2P Trust Resource Chain Model.- Information Technology Service Management: A Thailand Perspective.- A New Artificial Immune System for the Detection of Abnormal Behaviour.- Markov Chain Analysis of Genetic Algorithms Applied to Fitness Functions Perturbed by Multiple Sources of Additive Noise.- A Security Supervision System for Hybrid Networks.- Cost Minimization in Service Systems Using Particle Swarm Optimization.- MS2Web: Applying MDA and SOA to Web Services.- Security Analysis of One Verifiable Encryption Scheme.- Proactive Fault Management with Virtualization for Software Aging.- A Preemption Control Technique for System Energy Minimization of Weakly Hard Real-Time Systems.- Text Classification by Relearning and Ensemble Computation.- Analysis of Agents’ Cooperation in RoboCupRescue Simulation.- A Data Mining Approach for Predicting Reliable Path for Congestion Free Routing Using Self-motivated Neural Network.- A Formal Specification of UML Class and State Diagrams.

The 9th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing, held in Phuket Thailand on August 6 – 8, 2008 is aimed at bringing together researchers and scientist, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer science, and to share ideas and information in a meaningful way. This publication captures 20 of the conference’s most promising papers, and we impatiently await the important contributions that we know these authors will bring to the field.