This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cellular
Automata for Research and Industry ACRI 2008 held in Yokohama Japan in September 2008. The
43 revised full papers and 22 revised poster papers presented together with 4 invited lectures
were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers focus on challenging
problems and new research not only in theoretical but application aspects of cellular automata
including cellular automata tools and computational sciences. The volume also contains 11
extended abstracts dealing with crowds and cellular automata which were presented during the
workshop C&CA 2008. The papers are organized in topical sections on CA theory and
implementation computational theory physical modeling urban environmental and social
modeling pedestrian and traffic flow modeling crypto and security system biology CA-based
hardware as well as crowds and cellular automata.
