Background: There is a need for software applications that provide users with a complete and extensible toolkit for chemo- and bioinformatics accessible from a single workbench. C...
Ola Spjuth, Tobias Helmus, Egon L. Willighagen, St...
In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
This paper discusses results achieved in measuring complexity, effectiveness and efficiency, in a series of related software course projects, spanning a period of seven years. We ...
Abstract—In Open Source System (OSS) development, software components are often imported and reused; for this reason we might expect that files are copied in multiple projects (...
In this paper, we1 study new organizational forms for production processes that emerge in large scale Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. We will focus on the textua...
Vincenzo D'Andrea, Stefano De Paoli, Maurizio Teli