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In this paper, the adaptive reuse of Plone; an open source content management system is described. In one instance, Plone has been used as the backbone of a collaboration and communication support infrastructure within a large research project. In the ...

We collected bug tracking data from a few popular open source projects and investigated the time related bug reporting patterns from them. The results indicate that along its development cycle, open source projects exhibit similar reliability growth ...

Software is one of the major components of robots; in fact, it is the main bottleneck for the proliferation of robotics in our everyday lives. In the last years the field of robotics has been an emerging application area of the libre (free/open source) ...

Existing research into free/open source software development has largely ignored the nature of the application domain the software is for. Jørgensen and Sørensen's 'development arena' [12] provides a useful conceptual framework for grouping and ...

Change is a bitter fact of life for system developers and, to a large extent, conventional practices are aimed at arresting change and minimizing its effects. We take the opposite view and are exploring system engineering practices that harness the ...

Commercially, many in the industry are using products based on Open Source. What have been missing are studies on if the commercial industry benefits from developing software following the open source development model. We present a case study that ...

To identify the Open Source maintenance process two well known Open Source projects Apache HTTP server and Mozilla web browser were studied. The Open Source software maintenance process is formal even anyone can submit modifications or defect reports to ...

The Cast4All Content Conductor Platform is an integration and provisioning suite to manage data broadcasting networks in general and digital cinema networks in particular. The framework makes extensive use of open source components and contains several ...

The development and maintenance of UML models is an inherently distributed activity, where distribution may be geographical, temporal or both. It is therefore increasingly important to be able to interchange model information between tools - whether in ...

Open Source Software (OSS) development and use has increased significantly over recent years. Therefore, there is a need to analyze and understand these projects. Software quality is an important characteristic effecting overall system lifecycle cost, ...

This paper contributes to the literature on Open Source (OS) by providing empirical evidence on the incentives of firms that engage in the field. Data collected by a survey on 146 Italian companies supplying OS solutions (Open Source firms) show that (...

This report investigates Open Source E-Commerce or E-Business capabilities. This entails a case study within one firm that has undertaken an organizational initiative to develop, deploy, use, and support free/open source software systems for Enterprise ...

We assume that open source communities or collectives are somewhat organized. we also assume that such collectives are capable of learning, and indeed do learn. However, it is far more difficult to say exactly where, when and how such learning occurs, ...

This paper discusses a project aimed at understanding how open source software evolves by examining patterns of development and changes in releases over time. The methodological approach of the research and initial observations are described. These ...

Open source software(OSS), be it products or tools, are being adopted at a fairly rapid pace in commercial organizations. In fact many firms such as IBM and Sun are even 'opening' up their once proprietary software products and making the source code ...