TY - GEN
T1 - The swarm model in open source software developer communities
AU - Cui, Xiaohui
AU - Beaver, Justin
AU - Stiles, Everett
AU - Pullum, Laura
AU - Klump, Brian
AU - Treadwell, Jim
AU - Potok, Thomas
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Most of the current swarm model studies and applications try to mimic the collective behaviors of social animals, such as birds and ants. The studies seek to solve tasks similar to patterns and behaviors exhibited in those animal colonies. In this research, we demonstrated that the swarm model is also the major collaboration and organization model of Open Source Software (OSS) developer communities. OSS developers swarm together and spend their time attempting to achieve their relatively simple goals, while their contributions emerged as a collection of useful and sophisticated functionality that can compete with commercial software. The results discovered in this research will be helpful in demonstrating that the swarm model can not only be considered as a feasible approach to classical optimization problems, but can also be applied to constructing highly sophisticated systems.
AB - Most of the current swarm model studies and applications try to mimic the collective behaviors of social animals, such as birds and ants. The studies seek to solve tasks similar to patterns and behaviors exhibited in those animal colonies. In this research, we demonstrated that the swarm model is also the major collaboration and organization model of Open Source Software (OSS) developer communities. OSS developers swarm together and spend their time attempting to achieve their relatively simple goals, while their contributions emerged as a collection of useful and sophisticated functionality that can compete with commercial software. The results discovered in this research will be helpful in demonstrating that the swarm model can not only be considered as a feasible approach to classical optimization problems, but can also be applied to constructing highly sophisticated systems.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78649250092&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.101
DO - 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.101
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649250092
SN - 9780769542119
T3 - Proceedings - SocialCom 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust
SP - 656
EP - 660
BT - Proceedings - SocialCom 2010
T2 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2010, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, PASSAT 2010
Y2 - 20 August 2010 through 22 August 2010
ER -