Session Summary - Mechanisms

Takuya Katayama lead the discussion on Mechanisms for Software Process Description. He classified software process views as reflected in the position papers into functional, behavioral and enactional, described some generally desirable properties of software process mechanisms, and listed those projects that seemed to have obtained non-toy experience. He made a plea for each of these projects to answer a questionnaire that, among other things, requested information regarding how the formalism handled ill-behaved processes. The discussion focused on several a variety of issues.