The open source movement has grown steadily and matured in recent years, and this
growth has been mirrored by a rise in open source related research. The objective of this …

Component-Based Software Development has become a popular approach to building
software intensive systems. Besides using Commercial Off-The-Shelf components, an …

A single statistical framework, comprising power law distributions and scale-free networks,
seems to fit a wide variety of phenomena. There is evidence that power laws appear in …

This paper explores the use of volumetric features for action recognition. First, we propose a
novel method to correlate spatio-temporal shapes to video clips that have been …

In this paper, we present the results of empirical study of the effects of open source software
(OSS) components reuse on software development economics. Specifically, we examined …

Software developers search the Web for various kinds of source code for diverse reasons. In
a previous study, we found that searches varied along two dimensions: the size of the …

Open source software (oss), the origins of which can be traced back to the 1950s, is software
distributed with a license that allows access to its source code, free redistribution, the …

Corporate participation plays an increasing role in Open Source Software (OSS)
development. Unlike volunteers in OSS projects, companies are driven by business …

Traditionally, research on quality attributes was either kept under wraps within the
organization that performed it, or carried out by outsiders using narrow, black-box …

Manual classification methods of metamodel repositories require highly trained personnel
and the results are usually influenced by the subjectivity of human perception. Therefore …