4.3 Finished Theses

Abstract: Public institutions produce large amounts of publicly available data. Still, due to its poor quality and inconsistent structure, the potential of this data remains unused for the most part. The JValue Open Data Service was established to enhance the quality of this data and give it a stand...

Abstract: China is now playing a larger and larger role in the global economy and technology sphere. With support from the Chinese government since the early 2000s, open source software in China has become interesting to study with respect to the current and future development of the Chinese IT indu...

Abstract: Companies are facing difficult build-or-buy decisions when acquiring enterprise software. Open Source User Foundations provide an alternative way of acquisition that is especially relevant in software marketplaces where a handful of software vendors serve a large number of software buyers....

Abstract: Today software ecosystems heavily rely on the re-usage of and object level linking to existing code. Allowance for this is given by a wide variety of software licenses. Due to conflicting restrictions imposed by those licenses, some of them cannot be used together in the same project. This...

Abstract: Sweble Hub is a wiki-like, web-based collaboration platform for managing knowledge. So far, users have been able to create and edit articles using either MediaWiki’s markup language Wikitext or a visual editor.  To provide users with a better selection of markup languages, the go...

Abstract: Open Source Software offers various advantages to software product companies. In order that companies reap the benefits of OSS, organizations should establish an OSS governance program to manage OSS license compliance issues. The introduction of OSS governance could be challenging. However...

Abstract: Various kinds of business processes play a major role in the context of financial industry. Business Process Management Systems or also called Workflow Engines are therefore powerful software tools for controlling and automating business processes. More and more companies are interested an...

Abstract: Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) requires a set of competences which can best be aquired through direct experience. Transferring these competences through practical exercises to students in a classroom setting is a challenging task, due to the difficulties which arise with scaling high-touc...

Abstract: Since it has become very common for software projects to incorporate open source components, it is increasingly important to analyze their dependencies to avoid potential risks like license violations or security vulnerabilities. To determine and solve such issues we need a representation ...

Abstract:  Inner source (IS) is the application of Open Source principles to projects within organizational boundaries. Typically, this means that the artifacts and work items of inner source projects (ISPs) are accessible to everyone within the organization and cross-functional collaboration i...