ECOS: Ecological studies of open source software ecosystems

2014 Software Evolution Week - IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering, and Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE) Pub Date : 2014-02-01 DOI:10.1109/CSMR-WCRE.2014.6747205

T. Mens, Maëlick Claes, P. Grosjean

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Software ecosystems, collections of projects developed by the same community, are among the most complex artefacts constructed by humans. Collaborative development of open source software (OSS) has witnessed an exponential increase in two decades. Our hypothesis is that software ecosystems bear many similarities with natural ecosystems. While natural ecosystems have been the subject of study for many decades, research on software ecosystems is more recent. For this reason, the ECOS research project aims to determine whether and how selected ecological models and theories from natural ecosystems can be adapted and adopted to understand and better explain how OSS projects (akin to biological species) evolve, and to determine what are the main factors that drive the success or popularity of these projects. Expressed in biological terms, we wish to use knowledge on the evolution of natural ecosystems to provide support aiming to optimize the fitness of OSS projects, and to increase the resistance and resilience of OSS ecosystems.

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ECOS:开源软件生态系统的生态学研究

软件生态系统是由同一社区开发的项目集合，是人类构建的最复杂的工件之一。开源软件(OSS)的协作开发在过去的二十年里呈指数级增长。我们的假设是，软件生态系统与自然生态系统有许多相似之处。自然生态系统作为研究的主题已经有几十年了，而软件生态系统的研究是最近才开始的。因此，ECOS研究项目旨在确定是否以及如何从自然生态系统中选择生态模型和理论来适应和采用，以理解和更好地解释OSS项目(类似于生物物种)如何演变，并确定驱动这些项目成功或流行的主要因素是什么。用生物学术语来表达，我们希望利用自然生态系统进化的知识来提供支持，旨在优化OSS项目的适应度，并增加OSS生态系统的抵抗力和弹性。

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