This volume constitutes the selected and extended papers of workshops and symposia of the International Conference, on Advances in Computational Science and Engineering, FGCN2008, held in Sanya, Hainan Island, China in December 2008. The volume contains the workshops on peer-to-peer computing for information search (P2PSearch 2008), on wireless ad hoc, mesh and sensor networks (WAMSNet-08), on sensor networks and applications (SNA 2008), on wireless communications for intelligent transportation systems (WITS-08), on network assurance (NA 2008) , on communication & network technology management 2008 (CNM 2008), on forensics for future generation communication environments (F2GC-08), as well as on silver technology for aging society (STAS2008), together with the symposia on the 3rd international symposium on smart home (SH'08), on database theory and application (DTA-08), on u- and e- service, science and technology (UNESST-08), on control and automation (CA-08) , on grid and distributed computing (GDC-08), as well as on signal processing, image processing and pattern recognition (SIP 2008).