Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Commercial, professional, and community open source: Resolving the naming confusion
As a researcher, imprecise naming bothers me. The general confusion around the terms commercial open source, professional open source, and community open source warrants closer analysis. First my proposal, then some litmus tests, followed by a bit of history. Commercial open source is software provided as open source where a single legal entity owns the…
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International Journal of Open-Source Software & Processes
I’m a founding member and associate editor of the International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes. Please consider submitting a paper to this new journal, call for papers appended. CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes (IJOSSP) An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association – New in 2009…
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JUnit 3.8 documented using collaborations [Technical Report]
Author: Dirk Riehle Abstract: This paper describes the design of the unit testing framework JUnit v3.8. The documentation technique employed is an enhanced version of collaboration-based design, also known as role modeling. In collaboration-based design, objects are viewed as playing multiple roles in different contexts, and different contexts are viewed as task specific collaborations. The…
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Ward Cunningham: What if bacteria designed computers?
On March 30th, 2008, Ward Cunningham will unveil his latest innovation at the DorkBotPDX 0x01 event in Portland, Oregon. Don’t miss this chance to meet and listen to one of the great innovators in computer science.
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Addendum to Total Growth of Open Source Paper
Based on multiple requests, for the Total Growth of Open Source paper, we are providing a table of doubling times for the exponential models as well as semi-log scale graphs of the growth curves. Table 1: Doubling times for the growth curves
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Web 2.0 pattern mining workshop
I’m on the program committee of the Web 2.0 Pattern Mining Workshop @ TOOLS 2008 Europe. Please consider submitting a paper. Abstract: Web 2.0 features are now commonplace—blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social bookmarking and the like are almost everywhere you look online. Now that these technologies are maturing, what are their common problems and challenges?…