Computational Science – ICCS 2008 8th International Conference, Kraków, Poland, June 23-25, 2008, Proceedings

– Martin Walker:NewParadigmsforComputationalScience – Yong Shi:MultipleCriteriaMathematicalProgrammingandDataMining – Hank Childs: Why Petascale Visualization and Analysis Will Change the Rules – Fabrizio Gagliardi:HPCOpportunitiesandChallengesine-Science – Pawel Gepner:Intel'sTechnologyVisionandProductsforHPC – Jarek Nieplocha:IntegratedDataandTaskManagementforScienti?c- plications – Neil F. Johnson:WhatDoFinancialMarkets,WorldofWarcraft,andthe War in Iraq, all Have in Common? Computational Insights into Human CrowdDynamics We would like to thank all keynote speakers for their interesting and inspiring talks and for submitting the abstracts and papers for these proceedings. Fig. 1. Number of papers in the general track by topic The main track of ICSS 2008 was divided into approximately 20 parallel sessions (see Fig. 1) addressing the following topics: 1. e-Science Applications and Systems 2. Scheduling and Load Balancing 3. Software Services and Tools Preface VII 4. New Hardware and Its Applications 5. Computer Networks 6. Simulation of Complex Systems 7. Image Processing and Visualization 8. Optimization Techniques 9. Numerical Linear Algebra 10. Numerical Algorithms # papers 25 23 19 20 17 14 14 15 10 10 10 10 9 10 8 8 8 7 5 0 Fig. 2. Number of papers in workshops The conference included the following workshops (Fig. 2): 1. 7th Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling 2. 5th Workshop on Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscale Systems 3. 3rd Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications 4. Workshop on Computational Finance and Business Intelligence 5. Workshop on Physical, Biological and Social Networks 6. Workshop on GeoComputation 7. 2nd Workshop on Teaching Computational Science 8.