Optimizing Contemporary Application and Processes in Open Source Software (Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing)

"This book explores the field of open source software and processes. This wide area includes the special development process performed by geographically dispersed programmers, community issues like coordination and communication, motivations of the participants, and economic and legal issues. It is open source software is an example of a highly distributed innovation process led by the users"--

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the Nova Southeastern University (Florida, USA). Dr. Khosrow-Pour taught undergraduate and graduate information system courses at the Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg for 20 years. He is currently Executive Editor at IGI Global (www.igi-global.com). He also serves as Executive Director of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) (www.irma-international.org), and Executive Director and President of the World Forgotten Childrens Foundation (www.world-forgotten-children.org). He is the author/editor of over twenty books in information technology management. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Information Resources Management Journal, the Journal of Cases on Information Technology, the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, and the Journal of Information Technology Research, and has authored more than 50 articles published in various conference proceedings and scholarly journals.