Empirical research is an important methodology for the study of conceptual modeling practices. The recently published article "Representing part-whole relations in conceptual modeling: an empirical evaluation" (Shanks et al. 2008) uses the lens of ontology to study a relatively sophisticated...

There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open...

Software vulnerabilities represent a serious threat to cyber security: most cyber-attacks exploit known vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, there is no agreed-upon policy for their disclosure. Disclosure policy (protected period given to a vendor to patch the vulnerability) indirectly affects the...

This book presents the latest research on the software crowdsourcing approach to develop large and complex software in a cloud-based platform. It develops the fundamental principles, management organization and processes, and a cloud-based infrastructure to support this new software development...

This research studies the price competition between a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor, who adopts subscription-based pricing scheme, and an on-premises vendor, who uses perpetual license scheme. The SaaS vendor decides its subscription price, and the on-premises software vendor decides the...