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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Reversible Computation, RC 2016, held in Bologna, Italy, in July 2016.
The 18 full and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: process calculi; reversible models; programming languages; quantum computing; quantum programming; circuit theory; and syntheses.

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Process Calculi.- Rigid Families for the Reversible pi-calculus.- A calculus for local reversibility.- Static VS Dynamic Reversibility in CCS.- Reversing Single Sessions.- Reversible Models.- Reversible causal graph dynamics.- Boosting Reversible Pushdown Machines By Preprocessing.- Reversible Computation vs. Reversibility in Petri Nets.- Programming Languages.- Energy Efficient Language and Compiler for (Partially) Reversible Algorithms.- Mixing Hardware and Software Reversibility for Speculative Parallel Discrete Event Simulation.- Quaglia.- Elements of a Reversible Object-Oriented Language.- Initial Ideas for Automatic Design and Verification of Control Logic in Reversible HDLs.- Quantum Computing.- Design and Fabrication of CSWAP Gate Based on Nanoelectromechanical Systems.- Design of p-valued Deutsch quantum gates with multiple control signals and mixed polarity.- Using pi-DDsforNearestNeighborOptimizationofQuantumCircuits.- Quantum Programming.- Circular CNOT Circuits: Definition, Analysis and Application to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Circuits.- Towards Quantum Programs Verification: From Quipper Circuits to QPMC.- Circuit Theory.- Application of Permutation Group Theory in Reversible Logic Synthesis.- Strongly Universal Reversible Gate Sets.- Enumeration of reversible functions and its application to circuit complexity.- A finite alternation result for reversible Boolean circuits.- Syntheses.- Generating reversible circuits from higher-order functional programs.- A fast symbolic transformation based algorithm for reversible logic synthesis.-Checking Reversibility of Boolean Functions.

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