Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (Paperback)

Joseph Feller

ISBN 10: 1441944397 / ISBN 13: 9781441944399

Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., New York, NY, 2010

Paperback. Open source software (free software) has emerged as a major field of scientific inquiry across a number of disciplines. When the concept of open source began to gain mindshare in the global business community, decision makers faced a challenge: to convert hype and potential into sustainable profit and viable business models. This volume addresses this challenge through presenting some of the newest, extensively peer-reviewed research in the area. Open source software (free software) has emerged as a major field of scientific inquiry across a number of disciplines. When the concept of open source began to gain mindshare in the global business community, decision makers faced a challenge: to convert hype and potential into sustainable profit and viable business models. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781441944399

Riassunto:

Open source software (free software) has emerged as a major field of scientific inquiry across a number of disciplines. When the concept of open source began to gain mindshare in the global business community, decision makers faced a challenge: to convert hype and potential into sustainable profit and viable business models.

This volume addresses this challenge through presenting some of the newest, extensively peer-reviewed research in the area.

Contenuti: Full Papers.- FOCSE: An OWA-based Evaluation Framework for OS Adoption in Critical Environments.- Open Source Collaboration for Fostering Off-The-Shelf Components Selection.- From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: An Empirical Study of the Lifecycle of Volunteer Community Projects.- Project Entity Matching across FLOSS Repositories.- Can Knowledge Management be Open Source?.- Emergent Decision-Making Practices in Free/Libre Open Source Software (Floss) Development Teams.- Experiences on Product Development with Open Source Software.- Exploring the Effects of Coordination and Communication Tools on the Efficiency of Open Source Projects using Data Envelopment Analysis.- Innovation in Open Source Software Development: A Tale of Two Features.- Corporate Involvement of Libre Software: Study of Presence in Debian Code over Time.- Sprint-driven development: working, learning and the process of enculturation in the PyPy community.- Using Repository of Repositories (RoRs) to Study the Growth of F/OSS Projects: A Meta-Analysis Research Approach.- Community Structure, Individual Participation and the Social Construction of Merit.- OpenBQR: a framework for the assessment of OSS.- Network Analysis of the SourceForge.net Community.- Short Papers.- Influence in the Linux Kernel Community.- EDOS Distribution System: a P2P architecture for open-source content dissemination.- Reusing an open source application — practical experiences with a mobile CRM pilot.- The role of trust in OSS communities — Case Linux Kernel community.- Authenticating from multiple authentication sources in a collaborative platform.- Learning and the imperative of production in Free/Open Source development.- Open source technologies for visually impaired people.- Different Bug Fixing Regimes? A Preliminary Case for Superbugs.- Free/Open Services: Conceptualization, Classification, and Commercialization.- Surveying Industrial Roles in Open Source Software Development.- Guiding the Discovery of Open Source Software Processes with a Reference Model.- Effect of Coupling on Defect Proneness in Evolutionary Open-Source Software Development.- The Use of Open Source Software in Enterprise Distributed Computing Environments.- Shared Assumption Concerning Technical Determination in Apache Web Server Developer Community.- Learning Through Practical Involvement in the OSS Ecosystem: Experiences from a Masters Assignment.- Release Management in Free Software Projects: Practices and Problems.- Context-Dependent Evaluation Methodology for Open Source Software.- Benefits and Drawbacks of Open Source Software: An Exploratory Study of Secondary Software Firms.- Introducing Usability Practices to OSS: The Insiders’ Experience.- Perceptions on F/OSS Adoption.- Open Source Software and Open Data Standards as a form of Technology Adoption: a Case Study.- Free/Open Source Software Adoption, Public Policies and Development Indicators: An International Comparison.- Levels of Formality in FOSS Communities.- Stakeholder value, usage, needs and obligations from differnet types of F/LOSS licenses.- Panels.- to Panel Discussions at the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems — OSS 2007.- Legal issues for free and open source software in government.- Data and analyses sharing to support research on free/libre open source software.- Tutorials.- to OSS 2007 Tutorial Program.- How to Gather FLOSS Metrics.- EDOS-Tools Tutorial: EDOS Tools for Linux Distributions Dependencies Management and Quality Assurance.- Quality Specification, Testing and Certification of Bespoken, Open Source and Commercial Off-The-Shelf Systems.- Workshops.- to Workshops at the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems — OSS 2007.- 1st International Workshop on Trust in Open Source Software (TOSS).- Open Source Software and Product Lines 2007.- Toward a New Industrial Organization? OSS in Economic and Managerial Perspective.- 2nd International Workshop on Public Data about Software Development (WoPDaSD 2007).- FOSLET 07 — Workshop on Free and Open Source Learning Environments and Tools.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Open Source Development, Adoption and ...
Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., New York, NY
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: new
Edizione: prima edizione