[Viennar-meetup] Vienna<-R 2018 December

[Florian Schwendinger]

I am happy to announce the meetup for December!

The meetup will take place
on
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
at
Seminarraum D4.0.019 (Vienna University of Economics - Welthandelsplatz 1).

Konstantinos Plakidas will give a talk about
"How do software ecosystems evolve? A quantitative assessment of the R
ecosystem."

Abstract:
In this work we advance the understanding of software eco-systems
research by examining the structure and evolution of the R statistical
computing open-source ecosystem. Our research attempts to shed light
on the following intriguing question: what makes software ecosystems
successful? The approach we follow is to perform a quantitative
analysis of the R ecosystem. R is a well-established and popular
ecosystem, whose community and marketplace are steadily growing. We
assess and quantify the ecosystem throughout its history, and derive
metrics on its core software components, the marketplace as well as
its community. We use our insights to make observations that are
applicable to eco-systems in general, validate existing theories from
the literature, and propose a predictive model for the evolution of
software packages. Our results show that the success of the ecosystem
relies on a strong commitment by a small cor of users who support a
large and growing community.

Link:
https://eprints.cs.univie.ac.at/4880/1/paper_camera-ready.pdf

Florian