LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS OF THE SCPE SPECIAL ISSUE FROM SMECS-2008 WORKSHOP PAPERS "Simulation in Emergent Computational Systems" 1. Baert et al.: Minization Of Variance Download Times In A Distributed Vod System 2. Dobre et al.:A Simulation Framework for Dependable Distributed Systems 3. Doci et al.: Impact Of Mobility In The Connectivity Of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks 4. Wu et al.: Performance Analysis and Optimization of Parallel Scientific Applications on CMP Cluster Systems 5. Sevilgen et al.: Randomized Hydrodynamic Load Balancing Approach 6. Becker et al.: Replay-based synchronization of timestamps in event traces of massively parallel applications 7. Pllana et al.: Automatic Performance Model Transformation From A Human-Intuitive to a Machine-Efficient Form 8. Chai et al.: Virtual Large-Scale Disk Based On Pc Grid