  The BPM conference has a long tradition as the premier venue for publishing
research on business process management. For exploring the evolution of
research topics, we present the findings from a computational bibliometric
analysis of the BPM conference proceedings from the past 15 years. We used the
publicly available DBLP dataset as a basis for the analysis, which we enriched
with data from websites and databases of the relevant publishers. In addition
to a detailed analysis of the publication results, we performed a content-based
analysis of over 1,200 papers from the BPM conference and its workshops using
Latent Dirichlet Allocation. This offers insights into historical developments
in Business Process Management research and provides the community with
potential future prospects.
