The 8th ACIS/IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information S- ence, held in Shanghai, China on June 1-3 is aimed at bringing together resear- ers and scientist, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer science, and to share ideas and information in a meaningful way. This publication captures just over 20 of the conference's most promising papers, and we impatiently await the important contributions that we know these authors will bring to the field. In chapter 1, Abhijit Mustafi and P. K. Mahanti develop a contrast enhan- ment...