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Knowledge management in software ecosystems: software artefacts as first-class citizens

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Dominik Seichter,

Deepak Dhungana,

Andreas Pleuss,

Benedikt HauptmannAuthors Info & Claims

ECSA '10: Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume

Pages 119 - 126

https://doi.org/10.1145/1842752.1842780

Published: 23 August 2010 Publication History

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Collaborative development of software products across organisational boundaries in software ecosystems adds new challenges to existing software engineering processes. We propose a new approach for handling the diverse software artefacts in ecosystems by adapting features from social network sites. We promote artefacts to first-class citizens in such networks and specify different types of relationships between artefacts and actors. This helps in detaching tacit knowledge from vendors, suppliers, developers and users of an ecosystem and fosters easier management of software artefacts. We discuss this by example scenarios and present a prototypic implementation.

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Knowledge management in software ecosystems: software artefacts as first-class citizens
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
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ECSA '10: Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume

August 2010

367 pages

ISBN:9781450301794

DOI:10.1145/1842752

Conference Chair:
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Pacific Northwest Laboratory
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