From the text: From January 6 through 10, 2014, the Eighth International Conference on Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models (MAM8) was held at the National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India, continuing the rich tradition of previous successful MAM conference in Flint (1995), Winnipeg (1998), Leuven (2000), Adelaide (2002), Pisa (2005). Beijing (2008, and New York (2011).