We study optimal policies for design reuse in a software project using a control theoretic approach. A project needs to …

One of the puzzling aspects of open source software (OSS) development is its public good nature. Individual developers … contribute to developing the software, but do not hold the copyright to appropriate its value. This raises questions regarding … ownership of modified works. Different incentives govern effort provision at different stages of the software development …

Software interoperability information is indispensable in establishing connections among the parts of a program and to … the function of software interoperability information has a bottleneck effect in restricting competition, the conceptual … portions of software interoperability information are not protected under copyright, and software interoperability interfaces …

Einleitung -- 1. Optimierungssysteme als Bestandteil von OR / MS -- 2. Lineare Optimierungsmodelle -- 3. Software zur …

the University of Siegen and is now working as a Software Engineer. …

software. Maxima’s symbolic and computational capabilities enable economists and financial analysts to develop a deeper …

Software reliability is defined as the probability of the failure-free operation of a software system for a specified … period of time in a specified environment. Traditional approaches for software reliability analysis treat the software as a … whole, use test data during software test phase and model only the interactions with outside world; these are known as black …

was designed, i.e., the hardware and software. The software was implemented after the system design using Microsoft Visual … Basic 6.0. The software IrrigateSoft2009 is about 10 MB in size and will take about 2 min to set up irrigation activity …

We study the effect of user incentives on software security in a network of individual users under costly patching and … negative network security externalities. For proprietary software or freeware, we compare four alternative policies to manage …) Mandatory patching; (iii) Patching rebate; and (iv) Usage tax. We show that for proprietary software, when the software security …