Digital tools potentially enable remote collaboration. Analyzing how some 191 thousand software developers in the United States collaborate on the largest online opensource code repository platform, I find 79.8% of users clustering in only ten economic areas. Conditional on economic-area...

Background: Logistics problems involve a large number of complexities, which makes the development of models challenging. While computer simulation models are developed for addressing complexities, it is essential to ensure that the necessary operational behaviours are captured, and that the...

The non-literal scope of protection for software is intricate legally and is intricate technical. Thus, despite literally decades of court decisions and a mountain of legal scholar written on the subject in that time, it appears that there is still no consistent agreement about it, as evidenced...

The implementation of the open innovation (OI) model is associated with a significant organizational change within the existing processes, business models, and prevailing customs. This change takes appropriate measures to prepare for and conduct an effective implementation process. Only a small...

The credit scoring industry has a long tradition of using statistical models for loan default probability prediction. Since this time methodology has strongly evolved, and most of the current research is dedicated to modern machine learning algorithms which contrasts with common practice in the...

Research software has become a major asset in academic research. It often is the backbone of existing research methods, enables new research methods, implements and embeds research knowledge, and constitutes an essential research product in itself. Research software must be sustainable in order...

Globalization and dynamic economic conditions have exponentially increased the use of virtual work in organizations. Effectiveness in software development teams, therefore, is now a relevant issue in business, psychology or other fields. Despite the uniqueness of software development teams and...

There is an ongoing conflict between software copyright owners and a vast majority of users who are continually finding ways to use the software without paying. The paper investigates the attitudes of the users towards application of licensed or unlicensed software. Through in-debt analysis of...

Energy modelling is critical for addressing challenges such as integrating variable renewable energy and addressing climate impacts. This paper describes the updated code management structure and code updates, the revised community forum and the outreach activities that have built a vibrant...

Research software has become a major asset in academic research. It often is the backbone of existing research methods, enables new research methods, implements and embeds research knowledge, and constitutes an essential research product in itself. Research software must be sustainable in order...

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity...

The role of software in society has changed drastically since the start of the 21st century. Software can now partially or fully facilitate anything from diagnosis to treatment of a disease, regardless of whether it is psychological or pathological, with the consequence of software being...

“The proof of the pudding is in eating it”. The product will succeed only if people have successfully implemented it and benefitted from it. Prem not only discusses the behavioral factors responsible for success or failure of IT product life cycle, but introduces a whole new field of...

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...

This chapter addresses the myth of decentralized governance of public blockchains, arguing that certain people who create, operate, or reshape them function much like fiduciaries of those who rely on these powerful data structures. Explicating the crucial functions that leading software...

Dependable software architectures determine the method of integrating a fault tolerance technique with a given system in order to make the system dependable. Dependable architectures demonstrably possess properties such as safety, security, and fault tolerance. Enriching software architecture...

Abstract: Software Engineering is a profession of a technological nature, which takes up theories and knowledge from various sources and addresses the development of quality software at an industrial level. Software Engineering builds knowledge around these software development practices,...

The agglomeration of rules and regulations over time has produced a body of legal code that no single individual can fully comprehend. This complexity produces inefficiencies, makes the processes of understanding and changing the law difficult, and frustrates the fundamental principle that the...

The achievement of sustainable competitive advantage has been a major goal of every industry nowadays. In the rapidly growing software industry, the increasing number of competitors, availability of numerous software development tools and process with varied management technique has made the...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of organizational stress on financial performance in Indian software development companies. A questionnaire was distributed to employees of 17 Indian software development companies and filled by 501. We identified constructs using a literature...

Background/Purpose: In order to face the challenge of optimization and allocation of necessary requirements to complete a project with in the allocated time period, the project manager must be efficient in applying different technical skills and managerial strategies to the project management...

The DevOps model ensures that the organization's growth and processes are work together. As far as security is concerned, DevOps security tools are significant in relaying information on external attackers which can be traced back to development, allowing for quicker elimination of potential...

1. Introduction -- 2. Lean, Agile and Service-Oriented Performers: the Characteristics and Compatibility of Templates of Organizing -- 3. Lean Performers -- 4. Agile Performers -- Service-Oriented Performers -- 6. Performance Implications of the Fit between Lean and Agile: Organizational...

Part I: Conceptual Guide -- Chapter 1: Architecture and Construction -- Chapter 2: Planning and Scope -- Chapter 3: Teething Troubles -- Chapter 4: Greenfield Construction -- Chapter 5: Laying the Right Foundation -- Chapter 6: Renovating and Extending -- Chapter 7: Technical Debt -- Chapter 8:...

This Article provides the first systematic account of software applications as works of scholarship. Software is scholarship to the extent that software functionality is derived from scholarly research, software is used as a means to develop scholarship, or software is used as a medium to...