This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on
Combinatorial Optimization and Applications COCOA 2014 held on the island of Maui Hawaii
USA in December 2014. The 56 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and
selected from 133 submissions. Topics covered include classic combinatorial optimization
geometric optimization network optimization optimization in graphs applied optimization
CSoNet and complexity cryptography and games.
