Latest in Industry and Research Publications
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Developer Belief vs. Reality: The Case of the Commit Size Distribution [SE 2012]
Abstract: The design of software development tools follows from what the developers of such tools believe is true about software development. A key aspect of such beliefs is the size of code contributions (commits) to a software project. In this paper, we show that what tool developers think is true about the size of code…
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Business Risks and Governance of Open Source in Software Products (in German) [HMD Journal]
Titel: Geschäftsrisiken und Governance von Open-Source in Softwareprodukten Zusammenfassung: In fast jedem Softwareprodukt, auch in großer Standardsoftware, sind heute Open-Source-Komponenten enthalten. Die Hersteller dieser Software müssen die Geschäftsrisiken, die mit der Integration von Open-Source-Software in kommerzielle Produkte verbunden sind, verstehen und vernünftig managen. Dieser Artikel zeigt ein Modell verschiedener rechtlicher, technischer und sozialer Risiken auf,…
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Call for Papers: OSS 2012
For your convenience, the OSS 2012 call for papers (I’m on the program committee). THE 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS Hammamet, Tunisia, 10-13 September 2012 Scope of OSS 2012 Over the past two decades, Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has introduced new successful models for creating, distributing, acquiring and using software and software-based…
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Call for Papers: ECOOP 2012
For your convenience, the ECOOP 2012 call for papers (I’m on the program committee). Call for Papers 征稿启事 The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is the premium international conference covering all areas of object technology and related software development technologies. ECOOP 2012 will take place from 11-16 June, 2012 in Beijing, China — only…
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Call for Papers: Software Product Lines (SPLC 2012)
For your convenience, the SPLC 2012 call for papers (I’m on the program committee). Call for Contributions (SPLC 2012) We invite the following classes of contributions: Further information regarding the submission processes and submission dates can be found in the separate calls on the website http://www.splc2012.net/ We invite you to be part of SPLC! Information…
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Cloud Computing is not a Business Model
I’m at the Dagstuhl Seminar “Information Management in the Cloud” where I keynoted about cloud computing businesses models. Given that I’m hardly a cloud computing expert this may seem like a stretch, however, the organizers had asked me to talk about my open source experience and relate this to cloud computing. This perspective turned out…