A Stigmergy Approach for Open Source Software Developer Community Simulation

Author

Cui, Xiaohui ; Beaver, Justin ; Treadwell, Jim ; Potok, Thomas ; Pullum, Laura

Author_Institution

Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., Oak Ridge, TN, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2009

fDate

29-31 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

602

Lastpage

606

Abstract

The stigmergy collaboration approach provides a hypothesized explanation about how online groups work together. In this research, we presented a stigmergy approach for building an agent based open source software (OSS) developer community collaboration simulation. We used group of actors who collaborate on OSS projects as our frame of reference and investigated how the choices actors make in contribution their work on the projects determinate the global status of the whole OSS projects. In our simulation, the forum posts and project codes served as the digital pheromone and the modified Pierre-Paul Grasse pheromone model is used for computing developer agent behaviors selection probability.

Keywords

Internet; behavioural sciences computing; public domain software; software development management; team working; OSS developer community; Pierre-Paul Grasse pheromone; agent behaviors selection probability; community collaboration simulation; digital pheromone model; online groups; open source software; stigmergy approach; Buildings; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computational modeling; Costs; International collaboration; Laboratories; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Open source software; Programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Science and Engineering, 2009. CSE '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5334-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3823-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSE.2009.288

Filename

5283834