Background: Logistics management in the clinical trials industry is a very challenging undertaking because it involves multiple stakeholders, complex processes, diverse software applications, intensive white-collar jobs, and onerous quality standards. Current business practices are inefficient...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a widely used tool to estimate relative efficiencies. However, this methodology encounters issues when between-group comparisons with variable returns of scale (VRS) are of interest. In this specification efficiency scores can be undefined when the projection...

Software testing is one of the most important phases in the software development life cycle. Software testing cannot ensure successful outcomes until and unless done perfectly. For enhanced testing, it is extremely important to identify and prioritize the parameters that influence the testing...

Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the largest online code repository platform, GitHub,...

Digital work settings potentially facilitate remote collaboration and thereby decrease geographic frictions in knowledge work. Here, I analyze spatial collaboration patterns of some 191 thousand software developers in the United States on the largest code repository platform GitHub. Despite...

Automatisiertes Maschinelles Lernen (AutoML) sowie Low-Code und No-Code versprechen, im Sinne des Citizen Developer-Konzepts eine einfachere Nutzung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) indem die erforderlichen Programmierkenntnisse bzw. der Entwicklungsaufwand reduziert werden. Diese neuen...