This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2002, held in conjunction with HPDC-11 and FFG-5 in Edinburgh, Scotland in July 2002.

The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision; they present state-of-the-art research results in the area with emphasis on classical massively parallel processing scheduling, in particular backfilling, and on scheduling in the context of grid computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, BMCV 2002, held in Tubingen, Germany, in November 2002.
The 22 revised full papers and 37 revised short papers presented together with 6 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neurons and features, motion, mid-level vision, recognition - from scenes to neurons, attention, robotics, and cognitive vision.

This book constitutes the documentation of the 19 workshops and of the poster sessions organized during the 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2002, held in Malaga, Spain, in June 2002.
The 19 workshop reports and the poster session summary present a coherent and highly representative snapshot of the major trends in object-oriented technology.