Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact

Ernesto Damiani is a professor at the Department of Information Technology of the University of Milan. He is the Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP).

An Empirical Study of the Relation Between Strong Change Coupling and Defects Using History and Social Metrics in the Apache Aries Project.- Scaling and Internationalizing an Agile FOSS Project: Lessons Learned.- How Developers Acquire FLOSS Skills.- Implicit Coordination: A Case Study of the Rails OSS Project.- The Diffusion of Pastebin Tools to Enhance Communication in FLOSS Mailing Lists.- Examining Usability Work and Culture in OSS.- On the Availability and Effectiveness of Open Source Software for Digital Signing of PDF Documents.- A Systematic Approach for Evaluating BPM Systems: Case Studies on Open Source and Proprietary Tools.- Smart Route Planning Using Open Data and Participatory Sensing.- A Qualitative Study on the Adoption of Open Source Software in Information Technology Outsourcing Organizations.- Surveying the Adoption of FLOSS by Public Administration Local Organizations.- The RISCOSS Platform for Risk Management in Open Source Software Adoption.- First Results About Motivation and Impact of License Changes in Open Source Projects.- On the Variability of the BSD and MIT Licenses.- The Right to a Contribution: An Exploratory Survey on How Organizations Address It.- Open Source Software Ecosystems: Towards a Modelling Framework.