@inbook {1614,
	title = {The Agile Management of Development Projects of Software Combining Scrum, Kanban and Expert Consultation},
	booktitle = {Open Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies},
	series = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},
	volume = {427},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {176-180},
	publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	abstract = {

At the University of Informatics Sciences (UCI), Havana, Cuba, it is found The Center of Free Solutions of Software (CESOL) who has an informatic project named {\textquotedblleft}Auditing of Source Code{\textquotedblright} (ACF). This project has as objective to develop an open source software solution to auditing the source code of several software solutions with an agile projects management. In the present investigation have been showed the experiences obtained in the mixed application of two methods of agile projects management; Kanban and Scrum, together with the method Judgment of Expert, during the stage of construction of the lifecycle of ACF, when it is was performed a quality auditing by specialists of the CALISOFT company. In the auditing were detected several errors and to resolve them was necessary to estimate efforts, time and to revalue the lifecycle of the project. Moreover, the investigation show how this method can be used as a guide for young project managers for a correct planification and how can be used as a personal organizational method.
},
	keywords = {Agile management of projects, kanban, scrum},
	isbn = {978-3-642-55127-7},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_25},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_25},
	author = {Febles Parker, MichelEvaristo and Monte, YusleydiFern{\'a}ndez},
	editor = {Corral, Luis and Sillitti, Alberto and Succi, Giancarlo and Vlasenko, Jelena and Wasserman, AnthonyI.}
}
@inbook {1625,
	title = {Automation of Agricultural Irrigation System with Open Source},
	booktitle = {Open Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies},
	series = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},
	volume = {427},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {232-233},
	publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	abstract = {

In this present job, we seek to develop a prototype of an automated agricultural irrigation system, monitored and controlled remotely. For that, we will use inexpensive tools, flexibility and support such as Arduino, XBee and Android. Arduino and XBee, will be responsible of the automating the system. Android will achieve the remote monitoring and control from anywhere in the world where there is cellular service and Internet. In this way we can give the farmer the comfort and security that he don{\textquoteright}t get with a manually controlled system.
},
	keywords = {ADK, android, Arduino, XBee},
	isbn = {978-3-642-55127-7},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_36},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_36},
	author = {Quezada, BladimirJaimeP{\'e}rez and Fern{\'a}ndez, Javier},
	editor = {Corral, Luis and Sillitti, Alberto and Succi, Giancarlo and Vlasenko, Jelena and Wasserman, AnthonyI.}
}
@article {1420,
	title = {Path dependent stochastic models to detect planned and actual technology use: A case study of OpenOffice},
	journal = {Information and Software Technology},
	volume = {53},
	year = {2011},
	month = {11/2011},
	pages = {1209 - 1226},
	abstract = {Abstract
Context

Adopting IT innovation in organizations is a complex decision process driven by technical, social and economic issues. Thus, those organizations that decide to adopt innovation take a decision of uncertain success of implementation, as the actual use of a new technology might not be the one expected. The misalignment between planned and effective use of innovation is called assimilation gap.
Objective

This research aims at defining a quantitative instrument for measuring the assimilation gap and applying it to the case of the adoption of OSS.
Method

In this paper, we use the theory of path dependence and increasing returns of Arthur. In particular, we model the use of software applications (planned or actual) by stochastic processes defined by the daily amounts of files created with the applications. We quantify the assimilation gap by comparing the resulting models by measures of proximity.
Results

We apply and validate our method to a real case study of introduction of OpenOffice. We have found a gap between the planned and the effective use despite well-defined directives to use the new OS technology. These findings suggest a need of strategy re-calibration that takes into account environmental factors and individual attitudes.
Conclusions

The theory of path dependence is a valid instrument to model the assimilation gap provided information on strategy toward innovation and quantitative data on actual use are available.},
	keywords = {Actual use of technology, Path dependence, Technology adoption, Urn models},
	issn = {09505849},
	doi = {10.1016/j.infsof.2011.05.002},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584911001042},
	author = {Rossi, Bruno and Russo, Barbara and Succi, Giancarlo}
}
