Open Scientific Entrepreneurship

The objective of this article is to conceptually transfer the concept of open source software (OSS) development to scientific entrepreneurship and to hypothetically discuss the support potentials of this rather new development philosophy for what we than call open scientific entrepreneurship. Therefore, at first the authors will go into conceptual details of scientific entrepreneurship and than of OSS development. Following, the main thrust of the article presents open scientific entrepreneurship from two points of origin: first of all, OSS development as a specific form of scientific e-entrepreneurship and further on potential benefits of opening “traditional” scientific entrepreneurship up by looking at specific action fields. These action fields are theoretically based on the process and competence perspective of scientific entrepreneurship. Finally, the general benefits as well as downsides of the concept of openness are discussed on a generic level. It becomes obvious that there is need for balancing the tensions between an open and closed design pattern for scientific entrepreneurship with a general emphasis on the open design perspective.

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN OPEN DESIGN COMMUNITIES: A PROCESS PERSPECTIVE

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management ◽

10.1142/s021987701100260x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 08 (04) ◽

pp. 557-575 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

CHRISTINA RAASCH

Keyword(s):

Product Development ◽

Open Source ◽

Low Cost ◽

Industrial Practice ◽

Open Design ◽

Open Development ◽

Development Processes ◽

Design Projects ◽

Process Perspective ◽

Significant Attention

Open source (OS) has raised significant attention in industrial practice and in scholarly research as a new and successful mode of product development. This paper is among the first to study open source development processes outside their original context, the software industry. In particular, we investigate the development of tangible products in so-called open design projects. We study how open design projects address the challenges usually put forward in the literature as barriers to the open development of tangible products. The analysis rests on the comparative qualitative investigation of four cases from different industries. We find that, subject to certain contingencies, open design processes can be organized to resemble OSS development processes to a considerable degree. Some practices are established specifically to uphold OS principles in the open design context, while others starkly differ from those found in OSS development. Our discussion focusses on different aspects of modularity as well as the availability of low-cost tools.

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Examining Design Pattern Strategies as a Means to Achieve Social Presence in the Online Classroom

Student-Teacher Interaction in Online Learning Environments - Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6461-6.ch002 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 22-49

Author(s):

Araminta Matthews ◽

Robert M. Kitchin Jr.

Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Social Presence ◽

Design Pattern ◽

Design Patterns ◽

Course Design ◽

Online Courses ◽

Web Design ◽

Online Course ◽

Design Learning ◽

Potential Benefits

Design patterns have received much attention across multiple design domains where social interaction is a central goal because they have great potential for capturing and sharing design knowledge. Design patterns, design pattern language, and design pattern libraries demonstrate potential benefits to novice and expert online course designers. Trends affecting the growth of online courses and resultant pitfalls negatively affecting students and instructors indicate the need for social presence design. A literature review addresses the importance of social interaction, differentiated design, learning-oriented social networking, and Web design structures in an effort to assuage the experience of isolation reported by the majority of online students. The authors argue that design patterns are a method of overcoming many of these apparent obstacles to quality online course design and learning engagement. Additionally, they present example design patterns to solve specific social interacting problems.

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Electronic Payment

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch212 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1341-1348 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marc Pasquet ◽

Sylvain Vernois ◽

Wilfried Aubry

Keyword(s):

Specific Form ◽

Historical Evolution ◽

Future Trends ◽

Electronic Payment ◽

Payment Systems ◽

Electronic Money ◽

Main Thrust ◽

General Overview ◽

The World ◽

General Architecture

Money has two main forms nowadays: the fiduciary money (coins, banknotes…) and the scriptural one (electronic or virtual). To pay goods, both are used. The electronic money, one specific form of the scripting money, is more and more used everywhere in the world. Electronic payment has many particularities: specific infrastructure, equipment, and software, new forms of regulations, technical agreements, normalizations, fraud limitations… The objective of this chapter is to present a general overview of electronic payment. The background section presents its historical evolution. In the main thrust, the chapter focuses first on the general architecture of electronic payment. Second, different authorization mechanisms for the processing of the banking transaction and for fraud prevention are detailed. Future trends stress the different research topics that should be investigated, especially concerning the SEPA program (Single Euro Payments Area), which will harmonize bank payment systems in Europe through 2012.

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Open Design initiatives: an evaluation of CAD Open Source Software

Procedia CIRP ◽

10.1016/j.procir.2019.08.001 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 84 ◽

pp. 1116-1119 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hélio Castro ◽

Goran Putnik ◽

Alrenice Castro ◽

Rodrigo Dal Bosco Fontana

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Open Design

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Formative Evaluation of an Educational Mobile Application: an Interactive MyQiraat Application

International Journal of Engineering & Technology ◽

10.14419/ijet.v7i4.15.21375 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (4.15) ◽

pp. 75

Author(s):

Syahidatul Fitriah Ishak ◽

Zulkifly Mohd Zaki ◽

Khairul Anuar Mohamad ◽

M Norazizi Sham Mohd Sayuti ◽

Muhammad Azim Mohd Bahrin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mobile Devices ◽

Mobile Application ◽

Design Pattern ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Formative Evaluation ◽

High Fidelity ◽

Application Development ◽

Rapid Application Development ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

Continuous Progress

This research is concerned with deploying design pattern and formative evaluation for Qiraat mobile application using both Rapid Application Development (RAD) and User Experience (UX) methodologies. The ultimate aim of this research is to encourage ubiquitous teaching and learning of Qiraat through mobile devices. In this paper, continuous progress of MyQiraat design will be presented. The improvement of MyQiraat version design has been evaluated using high-fidelity and low-fidelity prototypes for MyQiraat version 1 and version 2 respectively. Results show that most participants realized the potential benefits of the application allowing a better understanding and encouragement of Qiraat learning among them. However, participants’ feedback should be considered in the development of the prototype.

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Coordination in Agile and Open Source

Agile Technologies in Open Source Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-681-5.ch005 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 51-74

Author(s):

Barbara Russo ◽

Marco Scotto ◽

Alberto Sillitti ◽

Giancarlo Succi

Keyword(s):

Software Development ◽

Open Source ◽

Software Industry ◽

Software Project ◽

Critical Problem ◽

Software Companies ◽

New Development ◽

Points Of View ◽

Silver Bullet ◽

Software Crisis

Although the situation in the software industry is improved in the last years, the percentage of software project cancelled 18%, or challenged (late, over budget, and with less than the required features) 53% is still high1. Researchers and practitioners are looking for the magic solution or the silver bullet that will allow software companies to overcome the software crisis (Brooks, 1987). New development approaches like AMs and OSD models are some of the solutions identified (Feller & Fitzgerald, 2002; Abrahamsson et al., 2003). One critical problem in software development consist of coordinating interdependent processes involving many interacting stakeholders with different interests, points of view, and expectations (Toffolon & Dakhli, 2000).

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A General Framework to Detect Design Patterns by Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis Techniques

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ◽

10.1142/s0218194021400027 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 31 (01) ◽

pp. 21-54

Author(s):

Cong Liu

Keyword(s):

Dynamic Analysis ◽

Open Source ◽

Design Pattern ◽

Design Patterns ◽

General Framework ◽

Process Mining ◽

Pattern Detection ◽

Software Systems ◽

Static And Dynamic Analysis ◽

Analysis Techniques

Design pattern detection can provide useful insights to support software comprehension. Accurate and complete detection of pattern instances are extremely important to enable software usability improvements. However, existing design pattern detection approaches and tools suffer from the following problems: incomplete description of design pattern instances, inaccurate behavioral constraint checking, and inability to support novel design patterns. This paper presents a general framework to detect design patterns while solving these issues by combining static and dynamic analysis techniques. The framework has been instantiated for typical behavioral and creational patterns, such as the observer pattern, state pattern, strategy pattern, and singleton pattern to demonstrate the applicability. Based on the open-source process mining toolkit ProM, we have developed an integrated tool that supports the whole detection process for these patterns. We applied and evaluated the framework using software execution data containing around 1,000,000 method calls generated from eight synthetic software systems and three open-source software systems. The evaluation results show that our approach can guarantee a higher precision and recall than existing approaches and can distinguish state and strategy patterns that are indistinguishable by the state-of-the-art.

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A case for Indian insourcing: Open Source interest in IT job expansion

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v9i11.1188 ◽

2004 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Casey O’Donnell

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Focal Point ◽

The United States ◽

Employment Opportunities ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

The Media ◽

It Workers ◽

Significant Opportunity

The controversy surrounding the "off–shoring" of IT jobs from the United States to other countries, in particular to India, has become a focal point in American political discourse and has been widely represented in the media. Disturbingly, little attention has been paid to this occurrence beyond its implications for American employment opportunities. Representing Indian and American IT workers as unified groups whose interests are mutually exclusive and opposed to one another is problematic given the material realities that propel "outsourcing." Among the potential benefits of growing demand for, and supply of, skilled IT workers is increased participation in the Open Source Software (OSS) movement. Expanding global involvement offers a significant opportunity for developing countries to influence the direction, importance, and future of OSS.

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