Matthew effect, ABC analysis and project management of scale-free information systems

Authors:
Dong Yan;Syed Zubair Ahmad;Dong Yang
Affiliations:
College of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China;Department of Computer Science, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan;School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China
Venue:
Journal of Systems and Software
Year:
2013

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Abstract

The Matthew effect widely exists in natural and artificial systems. This paper studies the Matthew effect emerging from large information systems by investigating their topological complexity. The Matthew effect of the topological complexity reveals scale-free behavior that can be characterized by the general scale-free model [Physics Letters A 303 (2002) 337-344]. The poor-rich demarcation of the Matthew effect is analyzed to classify modules of information systems based on ABC analysis that is consistent with the ABC classification of human resources. Thus the Matthew effect is applied to envisage the critical fusion of high performance and low cost in software engineering. Finally, the Matthew effect of two typical open-source software systems written in Java and C/C++ languages is also investigated.