AGENT-BASED MODELING OF OPEN SOURCEUSING SWARM

The open source software (OSS) development phenomenon appears to be a self-organizing process with emergent properties. Such processes are difficult to understand because emergent properties are by definition difficult to predict using traditional modeling and analytical techniques. An approach under evaluation is to use agent-based simulation techniques to study the OSS phenomenon. We are using the Swarm library and the Java programming language to model the self-organizing processes seen in the OSS phenomenon.

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