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Showing 1 to 20 of 267 for “"Open source software"”.
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Platform leadership in open source software
Industry platforms in the software sector are increasingly being developed in open source. Firms seeking to position themselves as platform leaders with such technologies must find ways of operating within the unique constraints of open source development. This thesis aims to understand those …
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Open source software: Economic and social analysis
… research to study three issues associated with open source projects and their applications in the software industry. The first study aims to analyze the evolution of open source projects from inception to success or failure by using the theoretical lens of social network analysis. Based on …
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A Usability Maturity Model for Open Source Software
… has always been a major factor in the success of software, regardless of whether the software is closed proprietary or open source software (OSS). Although user-centered designs are gaining recognition among the OSS community, many design scenarios still do not incorporate usability as one of …
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Empirical assessment of architecture-based reliability of open-source software
… have been proposed earlier for quantifying software reliability. Some of these models estimate the failure behavior of the software using black-box testing, which treats the software as a monolithic whole. With the evolution of component based software development, the necessity to use …
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Analysis and Reconstruction of Copyright Protection in Open Source Software
… intellectual property theory. In this context, open source movement has developed critical and distinct norms under the “free” and “sharing” concepts to promote the progress and dissemination of software. Notably, open source software has achieved impressive success technically and commercially …
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Advancing Software Development Efficiency in an Open Source Software Context
Open source software has been gaining popularity, especially among commercial organizations. The broad industry acceptance is in large part due to the demonstrated ability of open source solutions to compete with proprietary alternatives. Using open source software components enables companies to …
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Tightly coupled neutronics and thermal-hydraulics using open-source software
… The ITC method is implemented using two open-source codes: the DRAGON code and OpenFOAM. Additionally, a coupled computation using these two codes is new and has not been done in the past. The ITC method is verified using two 1.5-D (1-D neutronics and 2-D thermal-hydraulics) examples: a …
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Acquired status in free and open source software user groups
… seemingly unrelated concepts on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) participation into an integrated substantive framework. The research demonstrates how patterns of behaviour amongst FOSS participants serve as currency for the acquisition of status. Stages of the Basic Social Process …
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Open source software expectations in retail businesses of Igualada : an exploratory study
The emergence of open source software in the last years has become a common topic of study in different fields, from the most technical characteristics to the economical aspects. This paper examines the current status about the literature dealing with economics of open source and explores the uses, …
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An Investigation into quality assurance of the Open Source Software Development model
The Open Source Software Development (OSSD) model has launched products in rapid succession and with high quality, without following traditional quality practices of accepted software development models (Raymond 1999). Some OSSD projects challenge established quality assurance approaches, claiming …
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Design implications of an online collaborative workspace developed using open source software
… various means of sharing information and resources. The main research question addressed in this study is: What are the user requirements and design specifications of an online collaborative workspace developed in open source software? In order to answer this main question, the following …
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Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Organisations: The Case of Open Source Software Communities
… with successful knowledge sharing processes is open source software (OSS) communities. This justifies my thesis, which undertakes primary research in OSS communities via qualitative and quantitative studies to find out how and to what extent knowledge is shared in those communities, in order to …
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Development of Open-Source Software for Repeatable Processing of Mechanical Test Data
… in this project through the development of a software toolkit for automated processing and repeatable analysis of mechanical test data. The toolkit, named Paramaterial, was developed as a pip installable Python package, and is designed for use in Jupyter Notebooks. The usage of Jupyter …
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Open source software as applied in higher education: at one four-year university
… was to explain the implementation process of open source software (OSS) in a higher education setting, including any challenges that the faculty encountered during professional development, and implementation during instruction. This study was conducted at a four-year university in the …
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Sharing open source software application services, challenges and opportunities for the Namibia SME sector
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