Location, Location, Location: How Network Embeddedness Affects Project Success in Open Source Systems

Location, Location, Location: How Network Embeddedness Affects Project Success in Open Source Systems

T community-based model for software development in open source environments is becoming a viable alternative to traditional firm-based models. To better understand the workings of open source environments, we examine the effects of network embeddedness—or the nature of the relationship among projects and developers—on the success of open source projects. We find that considerable heterogeneity...

How Structural Embeddedness Affects Project Success in Open Source Systems

With the community-based model for software development followed in open source environments becoming a viable alternative to traditional firm-based models, we examine the effects of structural embeddedness-or the nature of the relationship among projects and developers-on the success of open source projects. We find that considerable heterogeneity exists in the embeddedness of open source proj...

Location, Location, Location: How Position Affects Gene Expression in the Nucleus

Chemical Source Location and the RoboMole Project

There are important economic and humanitarian applications for systems that can find the source of an odour or volatile chemical buried under the ground. These applications cover the spectrum from harvesting truffles, to finding the location of leaking gas pipes and land mines. This paper presents current progress of the RoboMole project which aims to develop robotic systems that can burrow thr...

Source Location

sensors position simuleted source estimates true location 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 y 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 x 0 1 2 z B C F D E A Figure 3. Distribution of source location estimates around the true position for sources at the six points evidenced in Figure 1, when TDOA estimates are all aaected by gaussian noise with equal distribution. positions using a loudspeaker. It must be observed, however, that the assu...