Innovation Diffusion in Open Source Software: Preliminary Analysis of Dependency Changes in the Gentoo Portage Package Database
Title | Innovation Diffusion in Open Source Software: Preliminary Analysis of Dependency Changes in the Gentoo Portage Package Database |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Bloemen, R, Amrit, C, Kuhlmann, S, Ordóñez–Matamoros, G |
Secondary Title | Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories |
Pagination | 316–319 |
Publisher | ACM |
Place Published | New York, NY, USA |
ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-2863-0 |
Keywords | dependencies, gentoo, graph, INNOVATION |
Abstract | In this paper we make the case that software dependencies are a form of innovation adoption. We then test this on the time-evolution of the Gentoo package dependency graph. We find that the Bass model of innovation diffusion fits the growth of the number of packages depending on a given library. Interestingly, we also find that low-level packages have a primarily imitation driven adoption and multimedia libraries have primarily innovation driven growth. |
URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2597073.2597079 |
DOI | 10.1145/2597073.2597079 |
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