This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2008, which took place in Yokohama, Japan, September 23-26,2008. The conference, which was organized by YokohamaNational University, was the eighth in a series of conferences in- guratedin1994inRende, Italy, andfollowedbyACRI1996inMilan, Italy, ACRI 1998in Trieste, Italy, ACRI 2000in Karlsruhe, Germany, ACRI 2002in Geneva, Switzerland, ACRI2004inAmsterdam, TheNetherlandsandACRI2006inP- pignan, France. The ACRI conference has been traditionally focused on challenging...