e Bay’s launch of its API in November 2000 marked the beginning of an era in which Web applications offer services for third-party application integration. The rapid growth of programmatic interfaces for Web applications has recently revolutionized online content integration and created new opportunities for vendors to build developer ecosystems. According to ProgrammableWeb, a leading service ...

Open source software, developed by volunteers, appears counter to the conventional wisdom that without ownership rights or government intervention, public goods will not be efficiently provided. But complexity makes a difference: contracts are incomplete and ownership rights do not necessarily elicit socially optimal effort. I consider three mechanisms that improve the provision of complex soft...

“Evaluation as a service” (EaaS) is a new methodology for community-wide evaluations where an API provides the only point of access to the collection for completing the evaluation task. Two important advantages of this model are that it enables reproducible IR experiments and encourages sharing of pluggable open-source components. In this paper, we illustrate both advantages by providing open-s...

Do open source software projects provide and maintain tests? What metrics are correlated with the test success? This paper answers these questions by executing tests of 452 open source software projects in GitHub and measuring 13 metrics from 77 projects. Only 117 projects passed all test cases. Additionally, the results are correlated with the comment density, public documented API density, an...

Distributed applications have fostered the standardization of application programming interfaces for the underlying communication services. Three popular communication modelsremote procedure calls, messaging and queuing, and conversations-support distributed applications across different networking protocols and physical media. Access to the conversational services of Advanced Programto-Program...

This workshopoutlines the progress that has been made on the TAUS Dynamic Quality Framework (DQF) in the past year and introduces the TAUS Quality Dashboard where all stakeholders in the global translation services can monitor their performance using industry-shared metrics and benchmark themselves against industry average productivity and quality. The TAUS DQF integration with translation tool...

The goal of the Teallach project is to provide facilities for the systematic development of interfaces to object databases in a manner which is independent of both a specific underlying database and operating system. Teallach’s open architecture also allows the creation of interfaces to nondatabase applications in a platform-independent manner. To this end Teallach adopts model-based techniques...

We describe MaxPre, an open-source preprocessor for (weighted partial) maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT). MaxPre implements both SAT-based and MaxSAT-specific preprocessing techniques, and offers solution reconstruction, cardinality constraint encoding, and an API for tight integration into SAT-based MaxSAT solvers.

The Aimms package integrates externally supplied solution algorithms for mathematical programming and constraint programming with model development, application integration, and application deployment. In this context, some aspects of the technical realization of the extension of the AIMMS package with a CP interface will be discussed: – Element variables are an abstraction of integer variables...

UNLABELLED 3Dmol.js is a modern, object-oriented JavaScript library that uses the latest web technologies to provide interactive, hardware-accelerated three-dimensional representations of molecular data without the need to install browser plugins or Java. 3Dmol.js provides a full featured API for developers as well as a straightforward declarative interface that lets users easily share and embe...