Papers
“Opportunities and Challenges Applying Functional Data Analysis to the Study of Open Source Software Evolution”, Statistical Science, vol. 21, pp. 167-178, 2006.
, “Open source software: Motivation and restrictive licensing”, International Economics and Economic Policy, vol. 4, pp. 209-225, 2007.
, “Maintainability of the kernels of open-source operating systems: A comparison of Linux with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD”, J. Syst. Softw., vol. 79, pp. 807–815, 2006. YuSchachChen.pdf (1.63 MB)
, “High Quality and Open Source Software Practices”, Proceedings of the 2nd ICSE Workshop on Open Source, 2002. HalloranScherlis.pdf (39.29 KB)
, “Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code (updated)”, 2005. maccormackrusnakbaldwin2.pdf (686.42 KB)
, “Evidences in the evolution of OS projects through Changelog Analyses”, Proceedings of the 3rd ICSE Workshop on Open Source, pp. 19-24, 2003. capiluppi2003.pdf (191.01 KB)
, “Empirical validation of object-oriented metrics on open source software for fault prediction”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 31, pp. 897-910, 2005. Gyimothy.pdf (1.59 MB)
, “Bridging the Gap between Agile and Free Software Approaches”, International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 58 - 71, 2009.
, “Are Developers Fixing Their Own Bugs?”, International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 23 - 42, 2011.
, “Analyzing cloning evolution in the Linux kernel”, Information and Software Technology, vol. 44, pp. 755-765, 2002. infsoft2002.pdf (280.22 KB)
, “The allocation of collaborative efforts in open-source software”, Information Economics and Policy, vol. 20, pp. 316 - 322, 2008.
, “Towards a Theoretical Model for Software Growth”, in Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007), Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2007, pp. 21 - 21. 28300021.pdf (463.96 KB)
, “On the Nonmaintainability of Open-Source Software”, in Proceedings of the 2nd ICSE Workshop on Open Source, 2002. SchachOffutt.pdf (112.54 KB)
, “Mining large software compilations over time: another perspective of software evolution”, in Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories, New York, NY, USA, 2006, pp. 3–9. 3miningLarge.pdf (247.09 KB)
, “Language entropy: A metric for characterization of author programming language distribution”, in 4th Workshop on Public Data about Software Development (WoPDaSD 2009), 2009. LanguageEntropy-JonathanKrein.pdf (895.29 KB)
, “Knowledge Reuse in Open Source Software: An Exploratory Study of 15 Open Source Projects”, in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, HI, USA, 2006, pp. 1-10.
, “Growth, evolution, and structural change in open source software”, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2001), New York, NY, USA, 2001, pp. 103–106. tu2001.pdf (596.11 KB)
, “Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00), Washington, DC, USA, 2000, p. 131–. godfrey00.pdf (215.75 KB)
, “Collaborative Maintenance in Large Open-Source Projects”, in OSS2006: Open Source Systems (IFIP 2.13), 2006, pp. 233 - 244. Collaborative Maintenance (642.17 KB)
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