Open Source Software: Quality Verification

1. Front Matter

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2. Full Papers

   1. Innovation and Sustainability

      1. Technological Innovation and Resource Bricolage in Firms: The Role of Open Source Software

         • Aarti Mahajan, Bart Clarysse

         Pages 1-17

      2. Empirical Study of the Relation between Open Source Software Use and Productivity of Japan’s Information Service Industries

         • Keisuke Tanihana, Tetsuo Noda

         Pages 18-29

      3. How Healthy Is My Project? Open Source Project Attributes as Indicators of Success

         • James Piggot, Chintan Amrit

         Pages 30-44

      4. Identifying Success Factors for the Mozilla Project

         • Robert Viseur

         Pages 45-60

      5. Is It All Lost? A Study of Inactive Open Source Projects

         • Jymit Khondhu, Andrea Capiluppi, Klaas-Jan Stol

         Pages 61-79

   2. Practices and Methods

      1. Community Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects: Aging and Social Reshaping

         • Anna Hannemann, Ralf Klamma

         Pages 80-96

      2. Exploring Collaboration Networks in Open-Source Projects

         • Andrejs Jermakovics, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

         Pages 97-108

      3. Socio-technical Congruence in OSS Projects: Exploring Conway’s Law in FreeBSD

         • M. M. Mahbubul Syeed, Imed Hammouda

         Pages 109-126

      4. Modeling Practices in Open Source Software

         • Omar Badreddin, Timothy C. Lethbridge, Maged Elassar

         Pages 127-139

      5. The Role of Microblogging in OSS Knowledge Management

         • Jonathan Lewis

         Pages 140-152

      6. A Preliminary Analysis of Localization in Free Software: How Translations Are Performed

         • Laura Arjona Reina, Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-Barahona

         Pages 153-167

   3. FOSS Technologies

      1. Authoritative Linked Data Descriptions of Debian Source Packages Using ADMS.SW

         • Olivier Berger, Christian Bac

         Pages 168-181

      2. An Open Source Monitoring Framework for Enterprise SOA

         • Nabil El Ioini, Alessandro Garibbo, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

         Pages 182-193

   4. Security and Open Standards

      1. Information Security and Open Source Dual Use Security Software: Trust Paradox

         • Mario Silic, Andrea Back

         Pages 194-206

      2. Open Standards and Open Source in Swedish Schools: On Promotion of Openness and Transparency

         • Björn Lundell, Jonas Gamalielsson

         Pages 207-221

   5. Business Models and Licensing

      1. Effect on Business Growth by Utilization and Contribution of Open Source Software in Japanese IT Companies

         • Tetsuo Noda, Terutaka Tansho, Shane Coughlan

         Pages 222-231

      2. Misconceptions and Barriers to Adoption of FOSS in the U.S. Energy Industry

         • Victor Kuechler, Carlos Jensen, Deborah Bryant

         Pages 232-244

      3. A Dual Model of Open Source License Growth

         • Gottfried Hofmann, Dirk Riehle, Carsten Kolassa, Wolfgang Mauerer

         Pages 245-256

3. Short Papers

   1. Towards a Reference Model on How to Utilise Open Standards in Open Source Projects: Experiences Based on Drupal

      • Jonas Gamalielsson, Björn Lundell, Alexander Grahn, Stefan Andersson, Jonas Feist, Tomas Gustavsson et al.

      Pages 257-263

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International IFIP WG 2.13 Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2013, held in Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia, in June 2013. The 18 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on innovation and sustainability; practices and methods; FOSS technologies; security and open standards; and business models and licensing.

• community dynamics
• information security
• license
• software development
• software metrics

• Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

  Etiel Petrinja, Giancarlo Succi, Nabil Ioini, Alberto Sillitti

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