This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2008, which took place in Yokohama, Japan, September 23-26,2008. The conference, which
was organized by YokohamaNational University,was the eighth in a series of conferences in- guratedin1994inRende,Italy,andfollowedbyACRI1996inMilan,Italy,ACRI 1998in Trieste, Italy, ACRI 2000in Karlsruhe,Germany, ACRI 2002in
Geneva, Switzerland,ACRI2004inAmsterdam,TheNetherlandsandACRI2006inP- pignan,France. The ACRI conference has been traditionally focused on challenging problems and new research not only in theoretical but application aspects
of cellular - tomata, including cellular automata tools and computational sciences. It is also concerned with applications and solutions of problems from the ?elds of physics,
engineering,environmentscience,socialscienceandlifesciences.Itsprimarygoal istodiscussproblemsfromavarietyofscienti?c?elds,toidentify newissuesand to enlarge the research ?elds of cellular automata. Since its inception, the
ACRI conference has attracted an ever-growing community and has raised knowledge andinterestinthe studyofcellularautomataforbothnewentrantsintothe ?eld aswellasresearchersalreadyworkingonparticularaspectsofcellularautomata.
First invented by von Neumann, cellular automata models have been po- larizedandinvestigatedinmanyareasduring thelastfew decades.They provide a mathematically rigorous framework for a class of discrete dynamical systems that
allow complex, unpredictable behavior to emerge from the deterministic - calinteractionsofmanysimple components operatinginparallelanddistributed manner.