Algorithms and computation : 8th international workshop WALCOM 2014 Chennai India February 13 15 2014 ; proceedings This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 8th International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation WALCOM 2014 held in Chennai India in February 2014. The 29 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computational geometry algorithms and approximations distributed computing and networks graph algorithms complexity and bounds and graph embeddings and drawings