Recent software advances have led to an expansion of the development and usage of
application programming interfaces (APIs). From millions of Android packages (APKs) …

The purpose of this study is to perform a synthesis of API research. The study took stock of
literature from academic journals on APIs with their associated themes, frameworks …

The popularity of JavaScript has lead to a large ecosystem of third-party packages available
via the npm software package registry. The open nature of npm has boosted its growth …

Context: Successful startup firms have the ability to create jobs and contribute to economic
welfare. A suitable ecosystem developed around startups is important to form and support …

Abstract Context Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) have been adopted within Software
Engineering (SE) for more than a decade to provide meaningful summaries of evidence on …

With the mutual interaction and dependence of several intelligent services, a crowd
intelligence service network has been formed, and a service ecosystem has gradually …

The learning ecosystem metamodel is a platform-independent model to define learning
ecosystems. It is based on the architectural pattern for learning ecosystems. To ensure the …

Recently, there has been substantial interest in the concept of a smart city, as it has been a
viable solution to the dilemmas created by the urbanization of cities. Digital technologies …

Code reuse is traditionally seen as good practice. Recent trends have pushed the concept of
code reuse to an extreme, by using packages that implement simple and trivial tasks, which …

Open source software projects often rely on package management systems that help
projects discover, incorporate, and maintain dependencies on other packages, maintained …