Re: [SwarmFest2004] SwarmFest2004 - Poster Abstact

[Rick Riolo]

hi greg,

no problem, we can accept it, thanks!

- r

Rick Riolo                           address@hidden
Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS)
4477 Randall Lab
University of Michigan         Ann Arbor MI 48109-1120
Phone: 734 763 3323                  Fax: 734 763 9267
http://cscs.umich.edu/~rlr

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Greg Madey wrote:

> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 07:10:35 -0500
> From: Greg Madey <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Greg Madey <address@hidden>
> Subject: [SwarmFest2004] SwarmFest2004 - Poster Abstact
>
> All ... sorry for being late. I hope you can still accept this?  Greg
>
> ==========================
>
> Simulating an Artificial Society: The Free/Open Source Software
> Community
>
> We report the latest results from an ongoing study of Free/Open Source
> Software (F/OSS) development at the community level. A computer
> simulation of the F/OSS community is developed using Java/Swarm and a
> relational database. Empirical data is used to parameterize the
> simulation, which in turn is used to investigate hypotheses about
> processes and mechanisms leading to F/OSS community formation.
> Successive ?computer experiments? using the simulation have been
> conducted to test various hypothesis about mechanisms and processes at
> play in the F/OSS developer community. Publicly available data about
> F/OSS projects, developers, processes, and their relationships have
> been collected from F/OSS hosting sites, including SourceForge and
> others. Numerous descriptive statistics, including the existence of
> many power-law relationships, are presented. The F/OSS community is
> modeled as a collection of ad hoc, social networks consisting of
> heterogeneous agents, self-organizing into projects and clusters of
> projects. The quantitative data, the model, and the simulation offer
> insight into F/OSS project coordination and communication.
>
> Greg Madey
> Computer Science & Engineering
> University of Notre Dame
> address@hidden
>
>