Collaborative Research: Workshop: Research Directions for Continuous (Re)Design in Free/Open Source Software Systems

该奖项支持一个国际研讨会，该研讨会将扩展研究方向，以理解自由/开源软件系统（F/OSS）中过程的持续（重新）设计。使用广泛共享的知识获取/管理过程和工具，开发F/OSS软件的动态社区开发并细化了非常大的、相互依赖的、移动的软件规格说明和设计集，同时还有实现、修复、发布等过程。这是一种基本的新型软件设计过程，有效地连接了许多相互作用的、连续的、开放的、集体的过程（这些过程很容易变得混乱），以产生令人惊讶的高效、稳定、有用和受限制的工件。在这个研讨会奖项下完成的活动包括分析和寻找扩展自由/开源软件系统和社区中持续（再）设计的当前研究的方法；制定标准，为这些领域中最具智力回报和生产力的方向提供决策信息；为符合这些标准的这些领域的研究制定一套具体的新方向和关键问题；并就如何最好地集中这些领域的新研究工作，为国家科学基金会提出了几套建议。调查的主题将包括在各种各样的F/OSS开发项目中使用的工作实践和软件开发工具。许多科学、政府和工业团体都能从拥有框架和指导方针中获益，这些框架和指导方针指导他们如何在f /OSS模型下持续地设计或管理复杂软件系统的持续设计，因为他们努力为内部应用程序或外部产品开发或管理复杂的软件系统，在经济压力下提高他们的软件生产力和质量，同时降低成本。

This award supports an international workshop to that will extend research directions for understanding the continuous (re)design of processes in free/open source software systems (F/OSS). Using widely shared knowledge capture/management processes and tools, the dynamic communities that develop F/OSS software develop and refine very large, interdependent, and moving sets of software specifications and designs, concurrently with processes of implementation repair, release, etc. This is a fundamentally new type of software design process, effectively linking many interacting, continuous, open, collective processes (which could easily become chaotic) to produce surprisingly efficient, stable, useful, and circumscribed artifacts. The activities to be accomplished under this workshop award include analyzing and finding ways to extend current research on continuous (re)design in free/open source software systems and communities; developing criteria for informing decisions on what are the most intellectually rewarding and productive directions in these areas; developing a set of specific new directions and critical issues for research in these areas which meet those criteria; and formulating several sets of recommendations for NSF on how best tofocus new research efforts in these areas. The themes investigated will include work practices and software development tools employed in a wide variety of F/OSS development projects. Numerous scientific, government, and industrial communities stand to benefit from having frameworks and guidelines for how to continuously design, or how to manage the continuous design, of complex software systems under theF/OSS model as they strive to develop or manage complex software systems for internal applications or external products, under economic pressure to improve their software productivity and quality, whilereducing costs.