[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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