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Risk Awareness in Open Source Component Selection

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Business Information Systems (BIS 2014)

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Adopting Open Source Software (OSS) components offers many potential advantages – such as cost effectiveness and increased reputation – but also introduces a variety of new risks related to the intrinsic fluidity of the OSS development projects. In this paper, we present results of a systematic literature review on OSS adoption risks, which allows to relate them to available OSS measures. Relying on the results of the review, we also present a risk-aware selection process, which uses OSS measures to rank OSS project according to the adopter’s criteria, improving the quality of the OSS component selection.

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  1. Fondazione Bruno Kessler, I-38123, Trento, Italy

    Mirko Morandini, Alberto Siena & Angelo Susi

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Poznań University of Economics, Poznań, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz

  2. Department of Management and MIS, University of Nicosia, Engomi, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Angelika Kokkinaki

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Morandini, M., Siena, A., Susi, A. (2014). Risk Awareness in Open Source Component Selection. In: Abramowicz, W., Kokkinaki, A. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 176. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06695-0_21

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