An empirically-based criterion for determining the success of an open-source project

Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 363-368

  Feitelson, Dror G ^a   Heller, Gillian Z ^b   Schach, Stephen R ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution of downloads; Open source software; SourceForge repository; Success criterion; Zipf like distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN INFORMATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOURCEFORGE REPOSITORIES; ZIPF DISTRIBUTION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33750129533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.2006.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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