Meta-Operations in the Process Model Hfsp for the Dynamics and Flexibility of Software Processes

Meta-operations are introduced into a software process model HFSP for modeling dynamic and flexible features of software processes. As process enaction is characterized as growing trees of activity decompositions in HFSP, these operations are most naturally considered as operations over these trees, which allow changing enaction status, creating new trees and communicating among them from inside and outside of the trees. A Formal description of these operations are given together with their application to the description of ISPW6 Example Process.