This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC'97, held in Singapore in December 1997. The 42 revised full papers presented were selected from a total of 98 submissions. The scope of the volume spans the whole area of algorithms from discrete mathematics and complexity theory to algorithms design and evaluation in a variety of applicational areas. Among the topics addressed are scheduling and logistics, networking and routing, combinatorial optimization, graph-computations, algorithmic learning, computational geometry, etc.