Open Sourcing Ecological Data

AGI and Neuroscience: Open Sourcing the Brain

Can research into artificial general intelligence actually benefit from research in neuroscience and vice-versa? Many AGI researchers are interested in how the human mind works. After all, within reasonable limits we can posit that the human mind is a working general intelligence. There is also a strong connection between work on human enhancement and AGI. We note though, that there are serious...

Competitive implications of software open-sourcing

This paper is concerned with the economic trade-offs associated with open-sourcing, the business strategy of releasing free open-source versions of commercial software products. The effect of the release of open-source versions on the customers’ perception of products is an important determinant of open-sourcing outcomes. We model open-sourcing as a strategic option for firms that compete in th...

Rate or Trade? Identifying Winning Ideas in Open Idea Sourcing

ion (Shaft and Vessey 2006). The task of evaluating ideas is represented by the mechanism that is provided to the user. Thus, mechanism accuracy is, all else being equal, a function of how well a mechanism supports decision-making of its users. The performance of such decision processes is generally referred to as decision quality, defined as the “correctness” or “goodness” of decisions (Dennis...

CLARITY: Open-Sourcing the Model-Based Systems Engineering Solution Capella

The central concern of the CLARITY project is to support open innovation for Model-Based Systems Engineering by structuring an ecosystem of major actors of the domain and providing an open-source environment, Capella, and its underlying methodology, Arcadia. In this experience report, we relate the Capella story from the initial development by Thales down to the open-sourcing strategy. The rati...

Sourcing in the Age of Open Leveraging the Unknown Workforce