"The aim of this book is to analyze the relationship between agile methods and open source, presenting the basic principles and practices and providing evidence through a set of specific empirical investigations"--Provided by publisher.

"This book is a collection of empirical research regarding the status of F/OSS projects, presenting a framework and state-of-the-art references on F/OSS projects, reporting on case studies covering a wide range of F/OSS applications and domains. It asserts trends in the evolution of software...

"This book gives an overview of the current research streams in the field of free and open source software development. A multitude of research approaches are used to explore free and open source software development processes, attributes of their products and the workings within the development...

"This book helps readers better understand open source software and its application in mobile learning, covering open culture and mobile learning in the open source setting and reviewing the pros and cons of various types of mobile network architecture, mobile devices, open source mobile...

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"This book is a multidisciplinary collection of research and approaches on the applications and processes of open source software, highlighting the development processes performed by software programmers, the motivations of its participants, and the legal and economic issues that have been...

"This book discusses the recent developments in open source GIS in terms of addition of new geospatial tools, development platforms, software libraries, wide ranging applications etc. in context of desktop as well as web versions. The comprehensive details of efforts of developer communities...

"Software process reengineering has become highly visible over the past several years. Efforts are being undertaken by organizations of all types and sizes as they attempt to deal with the challenges of quality, complexity and competitiveness. As an emerging technology, the effectiveness and...