Workshop on Scheduling for Parallel Computing (SPC 2009) -- Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes for Scheduling Divisible Loads -- Semi-online Preemptive Scheduling: Study of Special Cases -- Fast Multi-objective Reschulding of Grid Jobs by Heuristics and Evolution -- Comparison of Program Task Scheduling Algorithms for Dynamic SMP Clusters with Communication on the Fly -- Study on GEO Metaheuristic for Solving Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem -- Online Scheduling of Parallel Jobs on Hypercubes: Maximizing the Throughput -- The Third Workshop on Language-Based Parallel Programming Models (WLPP 2009) -- Verification of Causality Requirements in Java Memory Model Is Undecidable -- A Team Object for CoArray Fortran -- On the Definition of Service Abstractions for Parallel Computing -- The Second Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Parallel Applications on Large-Scale Systems -- Performance Debugging of Parallel Compression on Multicore Machines -- Energy Considerations for Divisible Load Processing -- Deskilling HPL -- Monitoring of SLA Parameters within VO for the SOA Paradigm -- A Role-Based Approach to Self-healing in Autonomous Monitoring Systems -- Parallel Performance Evaluation of MIC(0) Preconditioning Algorithm for Voxel ?FE Simulation -- Parallel HAVEGE -- The Fourth Grid Applications and Middleware Workshop (GAMW 2009) -- UNICORE Virtual Organizations System -- Application of ADMIRE Data Mining and Integration Technologies in Environmental Scenarios -- Performance Based Matchmaking on Grid -- Replica Management for National Data Storage -- Churn Tolerant Virtual Organization File System for Grids -- The Fourth Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids (LaSCoG 2009) -- Quasi-random Approach in the Grid Application SALUTE -- Mobile Agents for Management of Native Applications in GRID -- Leveraging Complex Event Processing for Grid Monitoring -- Designing Execution Control in Programs with Global Application States Monitoring -- Distributed MIND – A New Processing Model Based on Mobile Interactive Documents -- A Framework for Observing Dynamics of Agent-Based Computations -- HyCube: A DHT Routing System Based on a Hierarchical Hypercube Geometry -- Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology (PBC 2009) -- Accuracy and Performance of Single versus Double Precision Arithmetics for Maximum Likelihood Phylogeny Reconstruction -- Automated Design of Assemblable, Modular, Synthetic Chromosomes -- GPU Parallelization of Algebraic Dynamic Programming -- Parallel Extreme Ray and Pathway Computation -- Minisymposium on Applications of Parallel Computation in Industry and Engineering -- Parallelized Transient Elastic Wave Propagation in Orthotropic Structures -- Parallel Numerical Solver for Modelling of Electromagnetic Properties of Thin Conductive Layers -- Numerical Health Check of Industrial Simulation Codes from HPC Environments to New Hardware Technologies -- Application of Parallel Technologies to Modeling Lithosphere Dynamics and Seismicity -- AMG for Linear Systems in Engine Flow Simulations -- Parallel Implementation of a Steady State Thermal and Hydraulic Analysis of Pipe Networks in OpenMP -- High-Performance Ocean Color Monte Carlo Simulation in the Geo-info Project -- EULAG Model for Multiscale Flows – Towards the Petascale Generation of Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction -- Parallel Implementation of Particle Tracking and Collision in a Turbulent Flow -- A Distributed Multilevel Ant-Colony Approach for Finite Element Mesh Decomposition -- Minisymposium on Interval Analysis -- Toward Definition of Systematic Criteria for the Comparison of Verified Solvers for Initial Value Problems -- Fuzzy Solution of Interval Nonlinear Equations -- Solving Systems of Interval Linear Equations with Use of Modified Interval Division Procedure -- Remarks on Algorithms Implemented in Some C++ Libraries for Floating-Point Conversions and Interval Arithmetic -- An Interval Method for Seeking the Nash Equilibria of Non-cooperative Games -- From Gauging Accuracy of Quantity Estimates to Gauging Accuracy and Resolution of Measuring Physical Fields -- A New Method for Normalization of Interval Weights -- A Global Optimization Method for Solving Parametric Linear Systems Whose Input Data Are Rational Functions of Interval Parameters -- Direct Method for Solving Parametric Interval Linear Systems with Non-affine Dependencies -- Workshop on Complex Collective Systems -- Evaluating Lava Flow Hazard at Mount Etna (Italy) by a Cellular Automata Based Methodology -- Application of CoSMoS Parallel Design Patterns to a Pedestrian Simulation -- Artificial Intelligence of Virtual People in CA FF Pedestrian Dynamics Model -- Towards the Calibration of Pedestrian Stream Models -- Two Concurrent Algorithms of Discrete Potential Field Construction -- Frustration and Collectivity in Spatial Networks -- Weakness Analysis of a Key Stream Generator Based on Cellular Automata -- Fuzzy Cellular Model for On-Line Traffic Simulation -- Modeling Stop-and-Go Waves in Pedestrian Dynamics -- FPGA Realization of a Cellular Automata Based Epidemic Processor -- Empirical Results for Pedestrian Dynamics at Bottlenecks -- Properties of Safe Cellular Automata-Based S-Boxes.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2009, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2009.