English
Related papers

Related papers: A Methodological Framework for Socio-Cognitive Ana…

200 papers

Open source software (OSS) is essential for modern society and, while substantial research has been done on individual (typically central) projects, only a limited understanding of the periphery of the entire OSS ecosystem exists. For…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yuxing Ma , Tapajit Dey , Chris Bogart , Sadika Amreen , Marat Valiev , Adam Tutko , David Kennard , Russell Zaretzki , Audris Mockus

[Background] An increasing number of commercial firms are participating in Open Source Software (OSS) projects to reduce their development cost and increase technical innovativeness. When collaborating with other firms whose sought values…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Anh Nguyen-Duc , Daniela S. Cruzes , Snarby Terje , Pekka Abrahamsson

Open-source software (OSS) development relies on effective collaboration among distributed contributors. Yet, current OSS project recommendation systems primarily emphasize technical attributes, overlooking the collaboration and community…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shashiwadana Nirmani , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Mojtaba Shahin , Xiao Liu

Software evolution is a fundamental process that transcends the realm of technical artifacts and permeates the entire organizational structure of a software project. By means of a longitudinal empirical study of 18 large open-source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Mitchell Joblin , Sven Apel , Wolfgang Mauerer

Encompassing a diverse population of developers, non-technical users, and other stakeholders, open source software (OSS) development has expanded to broader social movements from the initial product development aims. Ideology, as a coherent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yang Yue , Yi Wang , David Redmiles

Participation of women in Open Source Software (OSS) is very unbalanced, despite various efforts to improve diversity. This is concerning not only because women do not get the chance of career and skill developments afforded by OSS, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Bianca Trinkenreich , Igor Wiese , Anita Sarma , Marco Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

Motivation - This research aims at investigating emerging roles and forms of participation fostering design-use mediation during the Open Source Software design process Research approach - We compare online interactions for a successful…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-10-10 Flore Barcellini , Françoise Détienne , Jean-Marie Burkhardt

[Context] Open Source Software (OSS) is nowadays used and integrated in most of the commercial products. However, the selection of OSS projects for integration is not a simple process, mainly due to a of lack of clear selection models and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Xiaozhou Li , Sergio Moreschini , Zheying Zhang , Davide Taibi

Open-source software (OSS) is widely spread in industry, research, and government. OSS represents an effective development model because it harnesses the decentralized efforts of many developers in a way that scales. As OSS developers work…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-24 William Schueller , Johannes Wachs , Vito D. P. Servedio , Stefan Thurner , Vittorio Loreto

Software systems emerge from mere keystrokes to form intricate functional networks connecting many collaborating modules, objects, classes, methods, and subroutines. Building on recent advances in the study of complex networks, I have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. R. Myers

Usability is an increasing concern in open source software (OSS). Given the recent changes in the OSS landscape, it is imperative to examine the OSS contributors' current valued factors, practices, and challenges concerning usability. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Wenting Wang , Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

Open Source Software for Social Good (OSS4SG) projects aim to address critical societal challenges, such as healthcare access and community safety. Understanding the community dynamics and contributor patterns in these projects is essential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohamed Ouf , Shayan Noei , Zeph Van Iterson , Mariam Guizani , Ying Zou

The gender gap is a significant concern facing the software industry as the development becomes more geographically distributed. Widely shared reports indicate that gender differences may be specific to each region. However, how complete…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Gede Artha Azriadi Prana , Denae Ford , Ayushi Rastogi , David Lo , Rahul Purandare , Nachiappan Nagappan

Open source software (OSS) sustainability depends not only on code contributions but also on governance structures that define who decides, who acts, and how responsibility is distributed. We lack systematic empirical evidence of how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pedro Oliveira , Tayana Conte , Marco Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

Despite the widespread adoption of open source software (OSS), its sustainability remains a critical concern, particularly in light of security vulnerabilities and the often inadequate end-of-service (EoS) processes for OSS projects as they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Tapajit Dey , Brian Fitzgerald , Sherae Daniel

Usability and user experience (UX) issues are often not well emphasized and addressed in open source software (OSS) development. There is an imperative need for supporting OSS communities to collaboratively identify, understand, and fix UX…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

Open source software (OSS) has been playing a fundamental role in not only information technology but also our social lives. Attracted by various advantages of OSS, increasing commercial companies take extensive participation in open source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xuetao Li , Yuxia Zhang , Cailean Osborne , Minghui Zhou , Zhi Jin , Hui Liu

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

Online creative communities have been able to develop large, open source software (OSS) projects like Linux and Firefox throughout the successful collaborations carried out over the Internet. These communities have also expanded to creative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Giuseppe Iaffaldano

Context: Software-intensive organizations' rationale for sharing Open Source Software (OSS) may be driven by both idealistic, strategic and commercial objectives, and include both monetary as well as non-monetary benefits. To gain the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Johan Linåker , Björn Regnell