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This article focuses on the application of model development and opening the source code available and implemented by the Free Software and Open Source FLOSS to the instructional and teaching has both mathematics and computer by the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-01-07 K. I. A. Derouiche

Open source software is free software that provides user freedom to use, replicate, modify, and distribute for any purpose. The quality of well-known open source software is very high and they are used by big companies such as IBM, Google…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Mohammad Nabil Almunawar

Research software -- specialist software used to support or undertake research -- is of huge importance to researchers. It contributes to significant advances in the wider world and requires collaboration between people with diverse skills…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Neil P. Chue Hong , Jeremy Cohen , Caroline Jay

Open-source is a decentralized and collaborative method of development that encourages open contribution from an extensive and undefined network of individuals. Although commonly associated with software development (OSS), the open-source…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Kathy Cheng , Shurui Zhou , Alison Olechowski

Open-source projects that aim to make their offerings public have competed against for-profit, proprietary companies in a number of domains. These open-source projects often arise in response to the offerings of proprietary companies in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Francesco Bova , Roger G. Melko

The use of open-source software (OSS) is ever-increasing, and so is the number of open-source vulnerabilities being discovered and publicly disclosed. The gains obtained from the reuse of community-developed libraries may be offset by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Serena E. Ponta , Henrik Plate , Antonino Sabetta

Collaborative activities among knowledge workers such as software developers underlie the development of modern society, but the in-depth understanding of their behavioral patterns in open online communities is very challenging. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hongrui Wu , Xiaowan Shi , Yutao Ma

Open source software ecosystems are composed of a variety of stakeholders including but not limited to non-profit organizations, volunteer contributors, users, and corporations. The needs and motivations of these stakeholders are often…

The widespread adoption of open source libraries and frameworks can be attributed to their licensing. Open Source Software Licenses (OSS licenses) ensure that software can be sold or distributed as part of aggregate programs from various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Raula Gaikovina Kula , Brittany Anne Reid , Christoph Treude

Software defect datasets, which are collections of software bugs, are essential resources to facilitate empirical research and enable standardized benchmarking for a wide range of software engineering techniques, including emerging areas…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Hao-Nan Zhu , Robert M. Furth , Michael Pradel , Cindy Rubio-González

The software engineering research community is productive, yet it faces a constellation of challenges: swamped review processes, metric-driven incentives, distorted publication practices, and increasing pressures from AI, scale, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Mary Shaw , Mary Lou Maher , Keith Webster

Efficient bug triaging procedures are an important precondition for successful collaborative software engineering projects. Triaging bugs can become a laborious task particularly in open source software (OSS) projects with a large base of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Marcelo Serrano Zanetti , Ingo Scholtes , Claudio Juan Tessone , Frank Schweitzer

Most software systems today do not support cognitive diversity. Further, because of differences in problem-solving styles that cluster by gender, software that poorly supports cognitive diversity can also embed gender biases. To help…

Software bugs cost the global economy billions of dollars each year and take up ~50% of the development time. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand the source code responsible for the bug and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Parvez Mahbub , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Ohiduzzaman Shuvo , Avinash Gopal

In this paper, we introduce 'public computation' as a genre of learning environments that can be used to radically broaden public participation in authentic, computation-enabled STEM disciplinary practices. Our paradigmatic approach…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-10-24 Pratim Sengupta , Marie-Claire Shanahan

Software bugs claim approximately 50% of development time and cost the global economy billions of dollars. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand the source code responsible for the bug and then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Parvez Mahbub , Ohiduzzaman Shuvo , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Large scientific collaborations, often with hundreds or thousands of members, are an excellent opportunity for a case study in best practices implemented while developing open source hardware. Using a publicly available design of timing…

The Open Source Software movement has been growing exponentially for a number of years with no signs of slowing. Driving this growth is the widespread availability of libraries and frameworks that provide many functionalities. Developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Stan Zajdel , Diego Elias Costa , Hafedh Mili

Be it for a malicious or legitimate purpose, packing, a transformation that consists in applying various operations like compression or encryption to a binary file, i.e. for making reverse engineering harder or obfuscating code, is widely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Alexandre D'Hondt , Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel , Axel Legay

Software is used in critical applications in our day-to-day life and it is important to ensure its correctness. One popular approach to assess correctness is to evaluate software on tests. If a test fails, it indicates a fault in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Max Hort , Leon Moonen