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 operatinginparallelanddistrib