Invited Talks -- The Next Decade of BPM -- BPM in Cloud Architectures: Business Process Management with SLAs and Events -- Warning: Don’t Assume Your Business Processes Use Master Data -- BPM in Practice -- IT Requirements of Business Process Management in Practice – An Empirical Study -- How Novices Model Business Processes -- BPM in Practice: Who Is Doing What? -- Correctness -- How to Implement a Theory of Correctness in the Area of Business Processes and Services -- Deciding Behaviour Compatibility of Complex Correspondences between Process Models -- Correctness Ensuring Process Configuration: An Approach Based on Partner Synthesis -- Design -- Impact of Granularity on Adjustment Behavior in Adaptive Reuse of Business Process Models -- Machine-Assisted Design of Business Process Models Using Descriptor Space Analysis -- From Informal Process Diagrams to Formal Process Models -- Distributed Processes -- Value-Oriented Coordination Process Modeling -- Coordination for Fragmented Loops and Scopes in a Distributed Business Process -- PAPEL: A Language and Model for Provenance-Aware Policy Definition and Execution -- Mining -- A Fresh Look at Precision in Process Conformance -- Trace Alignment in Process Mining: Opportunities for Process Diagnostics -- Content-Aware Resolution Sequence Mining for Ticket Routing -- Semantics -- Symbolic Execution of Acyclic Workflow Graphs -- Structuring Acyclic Process Models -- A New Semantics for the Inclusive Converging Gateway in Safe Processes -- Processes and People -- From People to Services to UI: Distributed Orchestration of User Interfaces -- Self-adjusting Recommendations for People-Driven Ad-Hoc Processes -- A Collaborative Approach to Maturing Process-Related Knowledge.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2010, held in Hoboken, NJ, USA, in September 2010. The volume contains 21 revised full research papers carefully reviewed and selected from 151 submissions, as well as 3 invited talks. The papers deal with issues in the area of business process management and process-aware information systems and are organized in topical sections on BPM in practice, correctness, design, distributed processes, mining, and semantics.