@inbook {L{\'o}pez2016,
	title = {OSSAP {\textendash} A Situational Method for Defining Open Source Software Adoption Processes},
	booktitle = {Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 28th International Conference, CAiSE 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 13-17, 2016. Proceedings},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {524{\textendash}539},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	address = {Cham},
	abstract = {Organizations are increasingly becoming Open Source Software (OSS) adopters, either as a result of a strategic decision or just as a consequence of technological choices. The strategy followed to adopt OSS shapes organizations{\textquoteright} businesses; therefore methods to assess such impact are needed. In this paper, we propose OSSAP, a method for defining OSS Adoption business Processes, built using a Situational Method Engineering (SME) approach. We use SME to combine two well-known modelling methods, namely goal-oriented models (using i*) and business process models (using BPMN), with a pre-existing catalogue of goal-oriented OSS adoption strategy models. First, we define a repository of reusable method chunks, including the guidelines to apply them. Then, we define OSSAP as a composition of those method chunks to help organizations to improve their business processes in order to integrate the best fitting OSS adoption strategy. We illustrate it with an example of application in a telecommunications company.
},
	isbn = {978-3-319-39696-5},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-39696-5_32},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39696-5_32},
	author = {L{\'o}pez, Lidia and Costal, Dolors and Ralyt{\'e}, Jolita and Franch, Xavier and M{\'e}ndez, Luc{\'\i}a and Annosi, Maria Carmela},
	editor = {Nurcan, Selmin and Soffer, Pnina and Bajec, Marko and Eder, Johann}
}
@inbook {1612,
	title = {A Layered Approach to Managing Risks in OSS Projects},
	booktitle = {Open Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies},
	series = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},
	volume = {427},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {168-171},
	publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	abstract = {

In this paper, we propose a layered approach to managing risks in OSS projects. We define three layers: the first one for defining risk drivers by collecting and summarising available data from different data sources, including human-provided contextual information; the second layer, for converting these risk drivers into risk indicators; the third layer for assessing how these indicators impact the business of the adopting organisation. The contributions are: 1) the complexity of gathering data is isolated in one layer using appropriate techniques, 2) the context needed to interpret this data is provided by expert involvement evaluating risk scenarios and answering questionnaires in a second layer, 3) a pattern-based approach and risk reasoning techniques to link risks to business goals is proposed in the third layer.
},
	keywords = {Layered Model, open source, OSS, Risk Management},
	isbn = {978-3-642-55127-7},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_23},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_23},
	author = {Franch, Xavier and Kenett, Ron and Mancinelli, Fabio and Susi, Angelo and Ameller, David and Ben-Jacob, Ron and Siena, Alberto},
	editor = {Corral, Luis and Sillitti, Alberto and Succi, Giancarlo and Vlasenko, Jelena and Wasserman, AnthonyI.}
}
@proceedings {1447,
	title = {OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective},
	volume = {378},
	year = {2012},
	month = {09/2012},
	pages = {129-143},
	publisher = {IFIP AICT},
	abstract = {The reuse and integration of Open Source Software (OSS) components provided by OSS communities is becoming an economical and strategic need for today{\textquoteright}s organizations. The integration of OSS components provides many benefits, but also risks and challenges. One of the most important risks is the lack of effective and timely OSS community support for dealing with possible integration problems. For gaining an understanding of the common problems that organizations face when integrating OSS components, and the role played by OSS communities, we performed an exploratory study on 25 OSS integration projects from different European organizations. The results show that the main way of reducing integration problems was the use of OSS components from well-established communities; therefore very few integration problems were identified. In most of the cases these problems were successfully solved with the support from the OSS community and/or colleagues. In addition, contrary to the common belief that understanding code from someone else is a hard and undesirable task, some integrators consider OSS code even more understandable than their own code.},
	author = {Ayala, Claudia and Cruzes, Daniela S. and Nguyen, Anh Duc and Conradi, Reidar and Franch, Xavier and Höst, Martin and Ali Babar, Muhammad}
}
@proceedings {1286,
	title = {Towards Improving OSS Products Selection {\textendash} Matching Selectors and OSS Communities Perspectives},
	year = {2011},
	month = {10/2011},
	pages = {244-258},
	publisher = {Springer},
	abstract = {Adopting third-party software is becoming an economical and strategic need for today organizations. A fundamental part of its successful adoption is the informed selection of products that best fit the organization needs. One of the main current problems hampering selection, specially of OSS products is the vast amount of unstructured, incomplete, evolvable and widespread information about products that highly increases the risks of taking a wrong decision. In this paper, we aim to inform and provide evidence to OSS communities that help them to envisage improvements on their information rendering strategies to satisfy industrial OSS selectors{\textquoteright} needs. Our results are from the matching between the informational needs of 23 OSS selectors from diverse software-intensive organizations, and the in-depth study of 9 OSS communities of different sizes and domains. The results evidenced specific areas of improvement that might help to enhance the industrial OSS selection practice.},
	keywords = {empirical study, information rendering strategy, open source software, selection},
	author = {Ayala, Claudia and Cruzes, Daniela S. and Franch, Xavier and Conradi, Reidar}
}
@conference {587,
	title = {Challenges of the Open Source Component Marketplace in the Industry},
	booktitle = {OSS2009: Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology },
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009///},
	pages = {213 - 224},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	chapter = {19},
	abstract = {The reuse of Open Source Software components available on the Internet is playing a major role in the development of Component Based Software Systems. Nevertheless, the special nature of the OSS marketplace has taken the {\textquotedblleft}classical{\textquotedblright} concept of software reuse based on centralized repositories to a completely different arena based on massive reuse over Internet. In this paper we provide an overview of the actual state of the OSS marketplace, and report preliminary findings about how companies interact with this marketplace to reuse OSS components. Such data was gathered from interviews in software companies in Spain and Norway. Based on these results we identify some challenges aimed to improve the industrial reuse of OSS components.
},
	issn = {978-3-642-02031-5},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02032-2_19},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Challenges\%20of\%20the\%20Open\%20Source.pdf},
	author = {Ayala, Claudia and Hauge, {\O}yvind and Conradi, Reidar and Franch, Xavier and Li, Jingyue and Velle, Ketil}
}
@conference {618,
	title = {Open Source Collaboration for Fostering Off-The-Shelf Components Selection},
	booktitle = {OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing },
	volume = {234/2007},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007///},
	pages = {17 - 30},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	chapter = {2},
	abstract = {The use of Off-The-Shelf software components in Component- Based Development implies many challenges. One of them is the lack of available and well-suited data to support selection of suitable OTS components. This paper proposes a feasible and incremental way to federate and reuse the different efforts for finding, selecting, and maintaining OTS components in a structured way. This is done not only for supporting OTS components selection, but also to overcome reported problems with the integration and maintenance of component repositories. It is based on the {\textquotedblleft}open source collaboration{\textquotedblright} idea to incrementally build an OTS components reuse infrastructure, enabling automatic support for OTS selection processes.
},
	issn = {978-0-387-72485-0},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_2},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Open\%20Source\%20Collaboration.pdf},
	author = {Ayala, Claudia and S{\o}ensen, Carl-Fredrik and Conradi, Reidar and Franch, Xavier and Li, Jingyue}
}
