[Air-l] 2 New Papers + 1 MS Thesis on opensource.mit.edu
Karim R. Lakhani
lakhani at MIT.EDU
Mon Apr 21 21:51:55 PDT 2003
Hello All,
Hope all is well. I have posted the following papers on our website.
Thanks to the authors for their submissions.
Paper 1
Author:
Ghosh, Rishab Ayer
Title:
Clustering and Dependencies in Free/Open Source Software Development:
Methodology and Tools
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/ghosh2.pdf
Abstract:
This paper addresses the problem of measurement of non-monetary economic
activity, specifically in the area of free/open source software
communities. It describes the problems associated with research on these
communities in the absence of measurable monetary transactions, and
suggests possible alternatives.. A class of techniques using software
source code as factual documentation of economic activity is described
and a methodology for the extraction, interpretation and analysis of
empirical data from software source code is detailed, with the outline
of algorithms for identifying collaborative authorship and determining
the identity of coherent economic actors in developer communities.
Finally, conclusions are drawn from the application of these techniques
to a base of software.
Paper 2:
Author:
Kim, Eugene Eric
Title
An Introduction to Open Source Communities
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/blueoxen.pdf
Abstract:
This report describes what open source communities are and how they
work. It cites relevant research and presents original case studies of
two open source projects: TouchGraph and SquirrelMail. It then
identifies patterns of collaboration shared by these projects, and
describes how these patterns might apply to other types of communities.
Finally, it reviews what is still not well understood about open source
communities, and proposes several paths for further research.
MS Thesis
Author:
te Meerman, Sanne
Title:
Puzzling with a top-down Blueprint and a bottom-up Network: An
explorative analysis of the Open Source World using ITIL and Social
Network Analysis
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/temeerman.pdf
Abstract
This paper explains some of the necessary tasks that need to be
performed for the construction and maintenance of software. These
necessary activities are abstracted from ITIL, a best- practice
'blueprint', that is often used by IT companies to structure their
processes. Next, using Social Network Analysis, an investigation is
conducted to asses how the activities that ITIL describes are performed
in the open source 'network'.
Thanks all!
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Karim R. Lakhani
MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Free/Open Source Software Research Project
e-mail: lakhani at mit.edu
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