Abstract : This special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience contains revised and extended versions of selected papers presented at the Euro-Par 2008 conference. Euro-Par--the European Conference on Parallel Processing--is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The major themes can be divided into the broad categories of hardware, software, algorithms and applications for parallel and distributed computing. Euro-Par 2008, the 14th conference in the Euro-Par series, was organized in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, by the Computer Architecture & Operating Systems Group (CAOS) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DIS) of the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
