From the reviews: "Definitely geared toward the academic researcher, this collection of 23 research papers and six prototype demonstrations--all presented at the 2008 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) ... . papers are long enough (usually 16 pages), well written, and structured to also be accessible to the reader with a general interest, as long as he or she has a college-level algebra and graph theory background. ... I am convinced, will remain a human task for a considerable period of time into the future." (Christoph F. Strnadl, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2009)

• Invited Talks (Abstracts).- Business Process Management: Today and Tomorrow.- Understanding and Impacting the Practice of Business Process Management.- The Future of BPM: Flying with the Eagles or Scratching with the Chickens?.- Regular Papers.- Applying Patterns during Business Process Modeling.- Modularity in Process Models: Review and Effects.- Model Driven Business Transformation – An Experience Report.- Supporting Flexible Processes through Recommendations Based on History.- Visual Support for Work Assignment in Process-Aware Information Systems.- From Personal Task Management to End-User Driven Business Process Modeling.- The Refined Process Structure Tree.- Covering Places and Transitions in Open Nets.- Correcting Deadlocking Service Choreographies Using a Simulation-Based Graph Edit Distance.- Predicting Coupling of Object-Centric Business Process Implementations.- Instantiation Semantics for Process Models.- A Probabilistic Strategy for Setting Temporal Constraints in Scientific Workflows.- Workflow Simulation for Operational Decision Support Using Design, Historic and State Information.- Analyzing Business Continuity through a Multi-layers Model.- Resource Allocation vs. Business Process Improvement: How They Impact on Each Other.- Detecting and Resolving Process Model Differences in the Absence of a Change Log.- Diagnosing Differences between Business Process Models.- BPEL for REST.- Scaling Choreography Modelling for B2B Value-Chain Analysis.- Evaluation of OrViA Framework for Model-Driven SOA Implementations: An Industrial Case Study.- Efficient Compliance Checking Using BPMN-Q and Temporal Logic.- Automatic Extraction of Process Control Flow from I/O Operations.- A Region-Based Algorithm for Discovering Petri Nets from Event Logs.- BESERIAL: BehaviouralService Interface Analyser.- Business Transformation Workbench: A Practitioner’s Tool for Business Transformation.- Oryx – An Open Modeling Platform for the BPM Community.- Transforming BPMN Diagrams into YAWL Nets.- Goal-Oriented Autonomic Business Process Modeling and Execution: Engineering Change Management Demonstration.- COREPRO Sim : A Tool for Modeling, Simulating and Adapting Data-Driven Process Structures.

From the reviews: "Definitely geared toward the academic researcher, this collection of 23 research papers and six prototype demonstrations--all presented at the 2008 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) ... . papers are long enough (usually 16 pages), well written, and structured to also be accessible to the reader with a general interest, as long as he or she has a college-level algebra and graph theory background. ... I am convinced, will remain a human task for a considerable period of time into the future." (Christoph F. Strnadl, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2009)

• Invited Talks (Abstracts).- Business Process Management: Today and Tomorrow.- Understanding and Impacting the Practice of Business Process Management.- The Future of BPM: Flying with the Eagles or Scratching with the Chickens?.- Regular Papers.- Applying Patterns during Business Process Modeling.- Modularity in Process Models: Review and Effects.- Model Driven Business Transformation – An Experience Report.- Supporting Flexible Processes through Recommendations Based on History.- Visual Support for Work Assignment in Process-Aware Information Systems.- From Personal Task Management to End-User Driven Business Process Modeling.- The Refined Process Structure Tree.- Covering Places and Transitions in Open Nets.- Correcting Deadlocking Service Choreographies Using a Simulation-Based Graph Edit Distance.- Predicting Coupling of Object-Centric Business Process Implementations.- Instantiation Semantics for Process Models.- A Probabilistic Strategy for Setting Temporal Constraints in Scientific Workflows.- Workflow Simulation for Operational Decision Support Using Design, Historic and State Information.- Analyzing Business Continuity through a Multi-layers Model.- Resource Allocation vs. Business Process Improvement: How They Impact on Each Other.- Detecting and Resolving Process Model Differences in the Absence of a Change Log.- Diagnosing Differences between Business Process Models.- BPEL for REST.- Scaling Choreography Modelling for B2B Value-Chain Analysis.- Evaluation of OrViA Framework for Model-Driven SOA Implementations: An Industrial Case Study.- Efficient Compliance Checking Using BPMN-Q and Temporal Logic.- Automatic Extraction of Process Control Flow from I/O Operations.- A Region-Based Algorithm for Discovering Petri Nets from Event Logs.- BESERIAL: BehaviouralService Interface Analyser.- Business Transformation Workbench: A Practitioner’s Tool for Business Transformation.- Oryx – An Open Modeling Platform for the BPM Community.- Transforming BPMN Diagrams into YAWL Nets.- Goal-Oriented Autonomic Business Process Modeling and Execution: Engineering Change Management Demonstration.- COREPRO Sim : A Tool for Modeling, Simulating and Adapting Data-Driven Process Structures.

From the reviews: "Definitely geared toward the academic researcher, this collection of 23 research papers and six prototype demonstrations--all presented at the 2008 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) ... . papers are long enough (usually 16 pages), well written, and structured to also be accessible to the reader with a general interest, as long as he or she has a college-level algebra and graph theory background. ... I am convinced, will remain a human task for a considerable period of time into the future." (Christoph F. Strnadl, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2009)

• Invited Talks (Abstracts).- Business Process Management: Today and Tomorrow.- Understanding and Impacting the Practice of Business Process Management.- The Future of BPM: Flying with the Eagles or Scratching with the Chickens?.- Regular Papers.- Applying Patterns during Business Process Modeling.- Modularity in Process Models: Review and Effects.- Model Driven Business Transformation – An Experience Report.- Supporting Flexible Processes through Recommendations Based on History.- Visual Support for Work Assignment in Process-Aware Information Systems.- From Personal Task Management to End-User Driven Business Process Modeling.- The Refined Process Structure Tree.- Covering Places and Transitions in Open Nets.- Correcting Deadlocking Service Choreographies Using a Simulation-Based Graph Edit Distance.- Predicting Coupling of Object-Centric Business Process Implementations.- Instantiation Semantics for Process Models.- A Probabilistic Strategy for Setting Temporal Constraints in Scientific Workflows.- Workflow Simulation for Operational Decision Support Using Design, Historic and State Information.- Analyzing Business Continuity through a Multi-layers Model.- Resource Allocation vs. Business Process Improvement: How They Impact on Each Other.- Detecting and Resolving Process Model Differences in the Absence of a Change Log.- Diagnosing Differences between Business Process Models.- BPEL for REST.- Scaling Choreography Modelling for B2B Value-Chain Analysis.- Evaluation of OrViA Framework for Model-Driven SOA Implementations: An Industrial Case Study.- Efficient Compliance Checking Using BPMN-Q and Temporal Logic.- Automatic Extraction of Process Control Flow from I/O Operations.- A Region-Based Algorithm for Discovering Petri Nets from Event Logs.- BESERIAL: BehaviouralService Interface Analyser.- Business Transformation Workbench: A Practitioner’s Tool for Business Transformation.- Oryx – An Open Modeling Platform for the BPM Community.- Transforming BPMN Diagrams into YAWL Nets.- Goal-Oriented Autonomic Business Process Modeling and Execution: Engineering Change Management Demonstration.- COREPRO Sim : A Tool for Modeling, Simulating and Adapting Data-Driven Process Structures.