Open-source software development is a production model that exploits the distributed intelligence of participants in Internet communities. This model is efficient because of two related reasons: it avoids the inefficiencies of a strong intellectual property regime and it implements concurrently...

This paper examines open source software development in a competitive environment. The quality of open source software improves over time based upon contributions by firms and users. A firm's decision to contribute is interesting because it also augments competitors' software quality in future...

Multivariate Time Series plays a major part in statistics, signal processing, pattern recognition, econometrics, weather forecasting and earthquake prediction etc. It is very tedious task to select the appropriate technique to visualize the high-dimensional data in order to get insight or...

This chapter discusses the relevance of Tocqueville's insights about the importance of civil society, as a foundation for democracy and as a counter-force to both government and market power, in the context of the challenges and opportunities created by the internet. What role does civil society...

oTree is an open-source and online software for implementing interactive experiments in the laboratory, online, the field or combinations thereof. oTree does not require installation of software on subjects' devices; it can run on any device that has a web browser, be that a desktop computer, a...

The remarkable success of open source software applications, such as the Mozilla web browser and the Apache server, which have surpassed the success of most of their commercial counterparts (Mockus et al. 2002), can be attributed, to a large part, to the knowledge collaboration (Faraj et al....

This study determines the key stakeholders, goals and existing business models for free and open source software (FOSS) by focusing on three major research questions: * Who are the key stakeholders involved in the creation, use and distribution of FOSS? * What are the goals of these FOSS...

This paper analyzes the competitive strategy of proprietary software (PS) firm in the presence of open-source software (OSS) where the copyright holder has granted software users access and use of OSS without any obligation regarding source code disclosure and royalty payments. The OSS is...

Integrated library systems (ILSs) have been fundamental to library workflow in both technical services and public services for decades. However, many of the proprietary ILSs currently on the market do not provide law libraries with the flexibility and adaptability necessary to keep pace with...