TY - GEN
T1 - Measuring open source software impact
AU - Ahuja, Vinod K.
AU - Germonprez, Matt
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Open source software foundations and communities often want to know the impact of their software. This impact can be understood in a variety of ways and in this paper we explore impact through the interdependencies of open source software. In this, open source software is dependent on components created upstream and open source software is used in components downstream - impact within an open source supply chain. This paper proposes an index (called the V-index) through which impact of an open source software, as used in downstream components, can be measured. This index is developed using the open database libraires.io, which provides the dependencies of open source software distributed through various package managers. The proposed index helps measure the impact of an open source software as part of its use within an open source supply chain.
AB - Open source software foundations and communities often want to know the impact of their software. This impact can be understood in a variety of ways and in this paper we explore impact through the interdependencies of open source software. In this, open source software is dependent on components created upstream and open source software is used in components downstream - impact within an open source supply chain. This paper proposes an index (called the V-index) through which impact of an open source software, as used in downstream components, can be measured. This index is developed using the open database libraires.io, which provides the dependencies of open source software distributed through various package managers. The proposed index helps measure the impact of an open source software as part of its use within an open source supply chain.
KW - Open source software impact
KW - Software dependencies
KW - V-index
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85054268026
SN - 9780996683166
T3 - Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018
BT - Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018
PB - Association for Information Systems
T2 - 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018
Y2 - 16 August 2018 through 18 August 2018
ER -