The goal of the 9th International Conference on Open Source Systems,
FOSS 2013 is to provide an international forum where a diverse community
of professionals from academia, industry and public sector, and diverse
FOSS initiatives can come together to share research findings and
practical experiences.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
OSS Verification
- Dynamic FOSS verification: FOSS testing, debugging, type of tests, use of test suits
- Static FOSS verification - software analysis
- Formal FOSS verification
- Detection of bad practices and adoption of coding conventions
- OSS metrics calculation: measuring FOSS performance, safety, and quality
- Standardization of verification acitivities and availability of verification results
FOSS as innovation
- Adoption/ use / acceptance of FOSS
- Dissemination / redistribution / crowdsourcing of FOSS systems
- Expanding scientific research and technology development methods through openness
- Adopting innovation in FOSS projects
- Role of FOSS in ICT and sustainable development
FOSS practices and methods
- FOSS and traditional / agile development methods
- FOSS and decentralized development
- Knowledge and documentation management in FOSS
FOSS technologies
- FOSS over the Internet
- Security of FOSS
- Interoperability / portability / scalability of FOSS
- Open standards / open data / open cloud / open hardware / open exhibits
- Reuse in FOSS
- FOSS for entertainment
- FOSS for education
- Architecture and design of FOSS
Economic / organizational / social issues on FOSS
- Economic analysis of FOSS
- Sustainability business models of FOSS
- Maturity models of FOSS
- FOSS in public sector
- FOSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing
- Non-Governmental Organizations and FOSS