Modeling Software Processes and Artifacts

The workshop on Modeling Software Processes and Artifacts has been attended by 16 researchers from 10 different countries. It explored the application of object technology in process modeling. The workshop was organized by Mehmet Aksit, Klaas van den Berg and Pim van den Broek (University of Twente), Leon Osterweil (University of Massachusetts), Karl Lieberherr (Northeastern University) and Francesco Marcelloni (University of Pisa), and was chaired by Mehmet Aksit. After the introduction by Klaas van den Berg and the invited lecture by Reidar Conradi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), a number of participants presented their position papers and there was ample time for discussion. In this introduction, we first give an overview on some background work, and describe the aims, aspects and approaches in software process modeling, and then we shortly comment on the position papers in this reader.