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The IASC (International Association for Statistical Computing) is a section of the ISI (International Statistical Institute), which is one of the oldest international scientific associations functioning in the modern world; the first session of the ISI was convened in 1853. The ISAC was founded during the 41st session of the ISI in 1977 for the purpose of fostering world-wide interest in effective statistical computing and exchange technical knowledge through international contact and meetings between statisticians, computing professionals, organizations, institutions, governments and the general public.

The IASC organizes several conferences; the 3rd IASC World Conference was held in Cyprus in 2005 and the 5th Conference of the ARS (Asian Regional Section) of IASC was held in Hong Kong, China, also in 2005. These events achieved great success in fulfilling the objectives of IASC mentioned above. IASC2008 is a successor to these two conferences and the first united conference in the history of IASC.

IASC2008 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners all over the world, including Asian countries, to share their knowledge about theories, methods and the practice of statistical computing and computational statistics, and to discuss current important issues regarding statistical methods and data analysis in various disciplines such as medicine, business, ecology, biology, engineering, where statistical computing is indispensable. IASC2008 is associated with "CSDA: The Computational Statistics & Data Analysis", the official journal of the IASC. The CSDA plans to have a special issue after the conference.