Containing the papers selected for a conference on database theory, this book is organized into sections on constraints and decomposition, query languages, updates and active databases, concurrency control and recovery, knowledge bases, datalog complexity and optimization, among other topics.

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.

Toxic fire effluents are responsible for the majority of fire deaths, and an increasing large majority of fire injuries, driven by the widespread and increasing use of synthetic polymers. Fire safety has focused on preventing ignition and reducing flame spread through reducing the rate of heat release, while neglecting the important issue of fire toxicity. This is the first reference work on fire toxicity and the only scientific publication on the subject in the last 15 years.

Assessment of toxic effects of fires is increasingly being recognised as a key factor in the assessment of fire...