With the Internet, bio-technology, video digital data processing, as well as global geometric data applications, the enormous dataset size has been pushing our limits in data processing. Both theoreticians and Practitioners are challenged to an extent that has never seen before. A growing pressure has been put on different experts, such as Computer Scientists, Combinatorics Experts, and Statisticians, dealing with their own large data processing problems, to reach out beyond their own disciplines, to search for ideas, methodologies, and tool boxes, to find better, faster and more accurate solutions.

The intErnational Symposium on Combinatorics, Algorithms, Probabilistic and Experimental methodologies (ESCAPE 2007), was held in Hangzhou, China form April 7-9, 2007, and was intended to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers across their discipline boundaries to exchange their approaches, to foster innovative ideas as well as to develop commonly interested research agenda. The novelty of ESCAPE was to study practical large data processing problems with different, and eventually converging, methodologies from major important disciplines. Ronald Graham, expert of Combinatorics joined the committee. Famous professor Xiaotie Deng、Kazuo Iwama、Mike Peterson attended the meeting and made presentations. ESCAPE proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.

With the invitation of Zhejiang University, the host unit of the conference, teacher Cui Peng made presentation in the ESCAPE 2007.His paper may receive the best paper praise. This praise only gave to four papers. When teacher Cui Peng studied in Peking University, he studied with professor Ji Lijiu, expert of micro-electronic, and took part in the national 973 project researched on the practice theory and high quality software in the information technology, and got a series of achievements in VLSI data analyses and parameter pick-up. Teacher Cui Peng made breakthrough in the arithmetic analyses and design of the minimum test set. He researched with two reach groups of America and European together to use new analyses methods, discovered some new theory results and changed more than 20 years’ stagnancy situation of this problem.