This paper focuses on an emerging model for software development in higher education: community source. Community source seeks to blend aspects of both open source and traditional...
Last year at the ECDL 2004 conference, we reported some initial progress and experiences developing DSpace as an open source community-driven project [8], particularly as seen from...
Robert Tansley, MacKenzie Smith, Julie Harford Wal...
Most of the current swarm model studies and applications try to mimic the collective behaviors of social animals, such as birds and ants. The studies seek to solve tasks similar to...
Xiaohui Cui, Justin M. Beaver, Everett Stiles, Lau...
Prior characterizations of open source projects have been based on the model of a community-founded project. More recently, a second model has emerged, where organizations spinout...
—To survive and succeed, software projects need to attract and retain contributors. We model the individual’s chances to become a valuable contributor through her capacity, wil...