Economics of Software Product Development Collectives

Towards a Grounded Theory of Collective Open Source Innovation

The actions of collectives who primarily meet on-line have recently captured the attention of the media, general public, business executives, and academics. File-sharing, open-source, and computer viruses are all carried out by loosely bounded collectives, rather than by firms or other formal organizations. These collectives operate in concert to accomplish innovation goals that may have great ...

Improving Software Development Economics Part II: Reducing Software Product Complexity and Improving Software Processes

Book Review Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems

Complex systems can easily be described as the crossroad of science. This is the area where physics, economics, biology, computer science, and many other disciplines meet, to explain phenomena, and to use the dynamics of the observed phenomena to solve problems within their own domains. One of the aspects of studying complex systems is understanding the behavior and activities of multiple, dist...

Qualitative SIMPLE

SIMPLE, Structured Intuitive Model of Product Line Economics, provides a technique for modeling the costs and benefits of a software product line over its life time. Several scenarios of product line development have been identified and the equations developed for those scenarios. The SIMPLE technique was intended for creating quantitative estimates. In this issue of Strategic Software Engineer...

Optimization Model of Hirmand River Basin Water Resources in the Agricultural Sector Using Stochastic Dynamic Programming under Uncertainty Conditions

In this study, water management allocated to the agricultural sector’ was analyzed using stochastic dynamic programming under uncertainty conditions. The technical coefficients used in the study referred to the agricultural years, 2013-2014. They were obtained through the use of simple random sampling of 250 farmers in the region for crops wheat, barley, melon, watermelon and ruby grapes under ...