Firms have the choice of developing software as either open source or closed source. The open-source approach to … software development has been advocated as a new and better method for developing high quality software than the traditional … closed-source approach. In open source, volunteer programmers freely contribute code to develop and improve the software …

This paper examines open source software development in a competitive environment. The quality of open source software … augments competitors' software quality in future periods subject to compatibility considerations with their existing software …. A differential game model is developed to understand why firms are increasingly involved in open source software …

As the competition in the software development business grows fiercer, the features provided in the software become … more and more important. With the growing popularity of open source software and the advent of new software delivery models …, such as software-as-a-service, the traditional software vendors cannot compete on price in the long run. Therefore, they …

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

the framework of a dynamic duopolistic competition, with firms controlling their investments in software …

We study the problem of optimally allocating effort between software construction and debugging. As construction …