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IBM Systems Journal
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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ICA3PP '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
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ALR7 Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Asian Language Resources
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Information and Software Technology
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Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
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Mediating debate through on-line large-scale argumentation: Evidence from the field
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
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Empirical Software Engineering
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Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Analyzing collaboration in software development processes through social networks
ISoLA'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Leveraging applications of formal methods, verification, and validation - Volume Part I
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Advances in Software Engineering - Special issue on new generation of software metrics
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Software—Practice & Experience
A systematic review of research on open source software in commercial software product development
Information and Software Technology
Software projects improvement using PSP: an approach for a R&D center
ACS'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer science
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Diffusion dynamics of open source software: An agent-based computational economics (ACE) approach
Decision Support Systems
Socio-technical developer networks: should we trust our measurements?
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Understanding broadcast based peer review on open source software projects
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Supporting software evolution in component-based FOSS systems
Science of Computer Programming
Medieval guild as metaphor to a knowledge sharing community
Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication
The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
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Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Social software engineering
A bundle of software rights and duties
Ethics and Information Technology
Redundancy and collaboration in wikibooks
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part I
Information and Software Technology
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Decision Support Systems
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Journal of Management Information Systems
Information Quality in Wikipedia: The Effects of Group Composition and Task Conflict
Journal of Management Information Systems
Reflections on Trust in Devices: An Informal Survey of Human Trust in an Internet-of-Things Context
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Free/Libre open-source software development: What we know and what we do not know
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Biological realms in computer science
Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software
Intelligence in the internet age: The emergence and evolution of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Computers in Human Behavior
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming - Prolog Systems
Perpetual development: A model of the Linux kernel life cycle
Journal of Systems and Software
Supporting group awareness in distributed software development
EHCI-DSVIS'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Engineering Human Computer Interaction and Interactive Systems
LADC'05 Proceedings of the Second Latin-American conference on Dependable Computing
Dependable Systems
Social Networks and the Diffusion of User-Generated Content: Evidence from YouTube
Information Systems Research
How Peripheral Developers Contribute to Open-Source Software Development
Information Systems Research
Users and developers: an agent-based simulation of open source software evolution
SPW/ProSim'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Software Process Simulation and Modeling
A social networking approach to F/OSS quality assessment
ICCMSN'08 Proceedings of the First international conference on Computer-Mediated Social Networking
Workings of collective intelligence within open source communities
SBP'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction
Infrastructures for information technology systems: perspectives on their evolution and impact
SERA'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications
Open source project as a pedagogical tool in higher education
Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments
An open source usability maturity model (OS-UMM)
Computers in Human Behavior
Links to the source - a multidimensional view of social ties for the retention of FLOSS developers
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Shades of gray: Opening up a software producing organization with the open software enterprise model
Journal of Systems and Software
A systematic review of research on open source software in commercial software product development
EASE'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
The learning analytics cycle: closing the loop effectively
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge
Teaching collaborative software development: a case study
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
A generation lost in the bazaar
Communications of the ACM
DRETOM: developer recommendation based on topic models for bug resolution
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
An empirical study on identifying core developers using network analysis
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ACM SIGITE Newsletter
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Industrial scientific software: a set of interviews on software development
CASCON '13 Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research
A Study of Linux File System Evolution
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
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The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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From the Book:Freedom is not an abstract concept in business. The success of any industry is almost directly related to the degree of freedom the suppliers and the customers of that industry enjoy. just compare the innovation in the US telephone business since AT&T lost its monopoly control over American consumers, with the previously slow pace of innovation when those customers had no freedom to chose. The world's best example of the benefits of freedom in business is a comparison of the computer hardware business and the computer software business. In computer hardware, where freedom reigns for both the suppliers and consumers alike on a global scale, the industry generates the fastest innovation in product and customer value the world has ever seen. In the computer software industry, on the other hand, change is measured in decades. The office suite, the 1980s killer application, wasn't challenged until the 1990s with the introduction of the Web browser and server. Open source software brings to the computer software industry even greater freedom than the hardware manufacturers and consumers have enjoyed. Computer languages are called languages because they are just that. They enable the educated members of our society (in this case programmers) to build ideas that benefit the other members of our society, including other programmers. To legally restrict access (via the proprietary binary-only software licenses our industry historically has used) to the knowledge of the infrastructure that our society increasingly relies on, has resulted in less freedom and slower innovation. Open source represents some pretty revolutionary concepts being thrown at an industry thatthought it had all of its fundamental structures worked out. It gives customers control over the technologies they use, instead of enabling the vendors to control their customers through restricting access to the code behind the technologies. Supplying open source tools to the market will require new business models. But by delivering unique benefits to the market those companies who develop the business models will be very successful competing with companies who attempt to retain control over their customers. There have always been two things that would be required if open source software was to materially change the world, one was for open source software to become widely used. The other; that the benefits this software development model supplied to its users had to be communicated and understood. This is Eric's great contribution to the success of the open source software revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies who supply them. His ability to explain clearly, effectively, and accurately the benefits of this revolutionary software development model has been central to the success of this revolution. Robert Young, Chairman and CEO, Red Hat, Inc. .