Business Process Modeling: Active Research Areas and Challenges

Technological developments and changes in business process context pose new challenges for effective management of business processes. Business process modeling is one of the most important area in business process management. Business process modeling is used to graphically visualize the operations of a business process for a better understanding and different analyses. These new challenges are also investigated by researchers in business process modeling with different perspectives. In this report, we present active research areas of business process modeling. The active research areas and current challenges help us to outline future research directions in the business process modeling domain. Additionally, we also discuss the business process and detailed business process lifecycle from post execution perspective for a better understanding of business process context.