Advantages Of Open Source Software Research Articles

Программные обеспечения с открытым исходным кодом как состоявшаяся система библиотек Армении

The article touches upon the importance of long-term digital preservation of Armenian cultural heritage through creation of digital repositories using Open-Source Software in Armenian libraries. The research highlights the advantages of Open-Source Software in context of providing free access to digital materials, as well as its high level of functionality in order to empower libraries with new technologies for more efficient organization and dissemination of information.

Open source solutions for Librarian

Open source software is software that users have the ability to run, copy, distribute, study, modify, share, and improve for any purpose. Open source library software does not need the initial cost of commercial software, but it does allow libraries to have more control over their working environment. Library professionals should be vigilant. The advantages of open source software and should involve its development. They must have basic knowledge. In the selection, installation and maintenance. Open source software requires more processing responsibility for commercial software. Library professionals do not seriously think about the benefits of opening source code software for automation and are therefore reluctant to use it. Lacking the skills to support open source software, the document highlights the core software of the open source library. Keywords: Open source software’s, The open source movement, Library technology, Information technology.

Repairable System Analysis of the Radioactive Ventilation Gas Monitors at CERN from Field Data

CERN has the legal obligation to protect the public and the people working on its site from any unjustified exposure to ionizing radiation. Therefore, several monitoring systems are operated at CERN to evaluate the radiological impact of CERN’s accelerators and installations by active monitoring. Having highly reliable and available monitoring systems is hence a crucial factor to ensure a safe operation and steady availability of the accelerator. Besides designing reliable systems or implementing a condition-based maintenance strategy, the analysis of field data also helps to achieve these high reliability and availability goals. To decide, whether a system should be replaced or to estimate its situation on its lifetime curve, the analysis of field data is appropriate. This paper will present how failure data from maintenance interventions on the example of the Ventilation Gas Monitors (VGM) are used to estimate the system lifetime, failure rate and optimal point for exchange. A power law process is used to model the parametric growth curve of the number of failures and the Nelson-Aalen estimator is employed to model the non-parametric growth curve of the number of failures for repairable systems. The power law model is extrapolated and enhanced by its failure costs to make estimations about the necessary budget in the future and the optimal time for exchange. Additionally, confidence bounds and goodness-of-fit tests are included to evaluate the precision of the prediction. Taking advantage of open source software, a model with R language is established for all the calculations.
 The first chapter of this paper gives an introduction to the topic. The second chapter outlines the functioning, structure and lifetime requirements of the VGM system and presents its collected failure data. The third chapter specifies the mathematical background for repairable system analysis, how the parameters are calculated with maximum likelihood estimation and describes the implementation of the Cramér-von Mises criterion and confidence bounds as goodness-of fit tests. The fourth chapter presents the results for the VGM system. The last chapter contains a conclusion and an outlook.

Security assessment of four open source software systems

<p class="Abstract">Incorporating Open Source Software (OSS) tools in software development is increasing day by day due to their accessibility on the internet. With the advantages of OSS comes disadvantages in terms of security vulnerabilities. Therefore, in this paper, we analyzed four famous open source software tools (i.e. Moodle, Joomla, Flask and VLC media player) which are used by software developers nowadays. For the analysis of each system, security vulnerabilities and weakness were identified, threat models were modeled,and code inspection was performed. The findings are discussed in more details.</p>

The characteristics and capabilities of the available open source health information technologies supporting healthcare: A scoping review protocol.

Due to the many advantages of open source software (OSS), including reduced cost of licensing, more flexibility in terms of customisation and redistribution, better quality and no vendor lock-in, OSS in healthcare is increasingly gaining importance. Various open source health information technologies (OS-HITs) are continuously being designed and developed for different areas of healthcare to increase organisational efficiencies and quality of care at minimum costs. The objective of this scoping review is to identify the kinds of existing OS-HITs, their characteristics (e.g. functions) and capabilities (e.g. advantages/disadvantages) for various healthcare stakeholders (physicians and patients) and healthcare sectors (e.g. clinical, administrative). We will conduct a scoping review to identify the range of available OS-HITs in international literature from 1980 to September 2018. Searches will be conducted in six major international databases, namely: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Plus, Excerpta Medica Database, Global Health, Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts, Medline and Web of Science to identify relevant published research. We will also search the Google search engine and Google Scholar for on-going and unpublished work and the grey literature. Searches will be peer-reviewed by two independent reviewers and will not be limited by methodology or language. Next, selected references will be tabulated for study characteristics by author affiliation, country of origin, the name of OS-HIT, healthcare area/sector, system requirements, stakeholders, complete solution and web link. Furthermore, functions, benefits/advantages, disadvantages and outcomes (e.g. usability) of OS-HITs will be extracted. Narrative and interpretative synthesis of data will be undertaken. We will report our findings in a peer-reviewed journal.

Open Source Software: A Big Leap in the Computer Education

examine the appearance of open source software in computer science education. We will undertake with a concise tutorial on open source software introduction, including a depiction of major popular open source licenses. Later we deliberate the use of open source software in education discipline. We Present some advantage of open source software in the field of education Finally, we focus on the use of open source software in computer science education.

Should Economists Use Open Source Software for Doing Research?

We survey the literature on the accuracy of econometric software. We also assess the advantages of open source software from the point of view of reliability and discuss its potential in applied economics, which has now become fully dependent on computers. As a case study, we apply various accuracy tests on GNU Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library (gretl) and demonstrate that the open source nature of the program made it possible to see the cause, facilitated a rapid fix, and enabled verifying the correction of a number of flaws that we uncovered. We also run the same tests on four widely-used proprietary econometric packages and observe the known accuracy errors that remained uncorrected for more than 5 years.

A Framework of Collaborative Knowledge Management System in Open Source Software Development Environment

The global economy crisis reveals the advantages of Open Source Software (OSS). Software developers benefit not only from reduced cost of acquisition, but also access to source code and components. In this aspect, knowledge sharing among developers are immensely important in all facets of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Feller and Fitzgerald (2000) raised the critical questions on what life-cycle underpins the OSS model and what is the best methodology to support the OSS as well as what toolkit support OSS methodology. This paper shall discuss the formulation of Knowledge Management System (KMS) framework for sharing knowledge in OSS using SDLC from the planning phase until the maintenance phase. An initial fact finding survey was conducted on selected OSS developers in Malaysia to analyze the current usage and acceptance of OSS. The results are quite unexpected, with many OSS developers are still not fully using OSS tools in SDLC stages. The proposed KMS model is envisaged to allow OSS Community-of-Practice to share the OSS knowledge for the whole SDLC.

A Cost Model of Open Source Software Adoption

A limited budget for IT may lock public bodies in obsolete inefficient solutions slowing down their process of innovation. Various actions of estimating, controlling, and reducing IT costs have been already performed at national and European levels and Open Source Software (OSS) has been often pointed as a promising alternative that may also render public services and the underlying business processes more transparent and accessible to citizens. In this chapter, we propose a model of cost of a migration to OSS as a decision making instrument that helps public bodies being autonomous and independent in the IT adoption. The model is empirically validated in the real daily operations of more than 3,500 users. If adopted systematically our model might be a powerful tool to support transformational government and to establish an empirical open knowledge base on the economic advantages of OSS on which to found future strategies of OSS adoption.

Adapting to change: Working with digital sound using open source software in a teaching and learning environment

This paper contributes towards knowledge and understanding of the creative use of software and hardware tools for computer music. It stems from a strategic need to continually rationalize the way money is spent within an academic department on Music IT, and an interest in the advantages of open source software for managing musical and collaborative projects. The authors discussed the most practical way of assessing the use of a completely open source software platform (Linux) and a specific distribution (Ubuntu-studio). It was considered appropriate that the composer-author (Adrian Moore, AM) try to write something in his style, using his knowledge of software, calling upon the more broadly experienced software developer (Dave Moore, DM) who has an interest in open source software. After a concerted effort in the studio, it is apparent that the Linux platform has much to offer, but remains limited in a number of areas of Music IT that are used extensively in academia, industry and at home. However, as a platform for teaching and learning computer music it is an ideal tool, though we conclude that some ‘introduction’ at the outset is required for those who are uninitiated to a Linux based system.

Open Source Software in Slovenian Primary and Secondary Schools

This article deals with the use of Open Source Software (OSS) at the primary and secondary level of education in Slovenia. The challenges and advantages of using OSS in educational processes are discussed. The main advantages of OSS are: economic freedom, stability, reliability and a possibility of making modifications but - on the other hand - the main problem for schools can be installation and support. The research carried out to determine the use of OSS in schools is described and the results are compared with the results of similar research studies in Germany, Sweden and UK. The results of both surveys show, that Linux and OpenOffice.org are the most popular OSS applications on computer desktops. The most important conclusion (according to our research) is that lack of knowledge prevents a faster introduction of OSS in education.

How open is open enough?: Melding proprietary and open source platform strategies

Computer platforms provide an integrated architecture of hardware and software standards as a basis for developing complementary assets. The most successful platforms were owned by proprietary sponsors that controlled platform evolution and appropriated associated rewards. Responding to the Internet and open source systems, three traditional vendors of proprietary platforms experimented with hybrid strategies which attempted to combine the advantages of open source software while retaining control and differentiation. Such hybrid standards strategies reflect the competing imperatives for adoption and appropriability, and suggest the conditions under which such strategies may be preferable to either the purely open or purely proprietary alternatives.