Tag: Open Source

Abstract: Open Data has a huge potential, but due to its often poor quality and inconsistency most of this data can’t be used, at least not without a lot of effort. Here the Open Data Service is bringing remedy, because this tool can homogenize such data structures. Still, because the data has ...

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...

Today, the Empirical Software Engineering project started. It is funded by Siemens CT. For more information, please see TBD.