Survival analysis on the duration of open source projects

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 902-922

  Samoladas, Ioannis ^a   Angelis, Lefteris ^a   Stamelos, Ioannis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Open source software; Prediction; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS RESULTS; APPLICATION DOMAINS; EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; FLOSS PROJECTS; FRAMEWORK PROGRAM; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; PREDICTION MODEL; PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL PROBABILITIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; OPEN SYSTEMS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 77953683512     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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