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Studying the laws of software evolution in a long-lived FLOSS project
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, to appear
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The evolution of the laws of software evolution
ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 46, issue 2.
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The influence of economic incentives linked to road safety indicators on accidents: The case of toll concessions in Spain
Accident Analysis & Prevention, vol. 59, October 2013
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Intensive Metrics for the Study of the Evolution of Open Source Projects: Case Studies from Apache Software Foundation Projects
10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
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Sample size vs. bias in defect prediction
9th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)
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On the Statistical Distribution of Object-Oriented System Properties
International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics (WETSoM)
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Modification and Developer Metrics at the Function Level: Metrics for the Study of the Evolution of a Software Project
International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics (WETSoM)
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On Software Engineering Repositories and Their Open Problems
Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE)
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Characterization of Wikipedia Traffic
International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW)
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Impact of Installation Counts on Perceived Quality: A Case Study on Debian
Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE)
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Temporal characterization of the requests to Wikipedia
International Workshop on New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval (DART)
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On the distribution of source code file sizes
International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT)
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A quantitative examination of the impact of featured articles in Wikipedia
International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT)
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A statistical approach to the impact of featured articles in Wikipedia
International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD)
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Comparing Cost Functions in Resource Analysis
Foundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis. vol. 6324 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
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Mining Challenge 2010: FreeBSD, GNOME Desktop and Debian/Ubuntu
7th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).
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A statistical examination of the evolution and properties of libre software
25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM).
Paper in the doctoral symposium of the conference.
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Research friendly software repositories to drive evolution
Joint International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution and ERCIM Workshop on Software evolution (IWPSE-EVOL).
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Evolution of the core team of developers in libre software projects
6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).
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Tools for the Study of the Usual Data Sources found in Libre Software Projects
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes. Vol. 1, issue 1.
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FLOSSMetrics: Free / Libre / Open Source Software Metrics
13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR).
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Managing Libre Software Distributions under a Product Line Approach \\ 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC). \\ PDF | BibTeX citation

Determinism and evolution
5th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).
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Towards a simplification of the bug report form in Eclipse
5th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).
MSR challenge report.
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Free software: scientific and technological innovation
UPGRADE, Vol. VIII, issue no. 6.
Presentation of the special issue on Free software: research and development.
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The need for libre software research in Europe
UPGRADE, Vol. VIII, issue no. 6, Free software: research and development.
Editorial for the special issue.
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Libre software for research
UPGRADE, Vol. VIII, issue no. 6, Free software: research and development.
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On the prediction of the evolution of libre software projects.
23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM).
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Adapting the "staged model for software evolution" to FLOSS.
9th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE).
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Towards a theoretical model for software growth
4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).
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Forecasting the number of changes in Eclipse using time series analysis
4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).
MSR Challenge report.
Winner of the prediction challenge.
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Impact of the creation of the Mozilla Foundation in the activity of developers
4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).
MSR Challenge report.
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Applying Social Network Analysis Techniques to Community-Driven Libre Software Projects
International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering. Vol. 1, issue 3.
Also published as a chapter of the book:
Integrated Approaches in Information Technology and Web Engineering: Advancing Organizational Knowledge Sharing
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The processes of joining in global distributed software projects
1st International Workshop on Global Software Development for the Practitioner (GSD).
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Comparison between SLOCs and number of files as size metrics for software evolution analysis
10th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR).
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An empirical approach to software archaeology
21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM).
Poster paper. Longer paper also available.
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Evolution and growth in large libre software projects
8th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE).
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Measuring Libre Software Using Debian 3.1 (Sarge) as A Case Study: Preliminary Results
Upgrade. Vol. VI, issue no. 3, Libre Software as a field of study.
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Towards predictor models for large libre software projects
1st International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE).
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Software libre: investigación y desarrollo
Novática, número 190.
Presentación del número monográfico sobre Software libre: investigación y desarrollo.
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La necesidad de investigar sobre software libre en Europa
Novática, número 190.
Editorial para el número monográfico.
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Software libre para la gestión de proyectos de investigación
Novática, número 190.
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Debian 3.1 (Sarge) como caso de estudio de medición del Software Libre: resultados preliminares
Novática, número 175.
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Análisis de lista de correo en el software libre: un caso de estudio \\ V Jornadas Andaluzas de Software Libre (JASL). \\ PDF | BibTeX

Actas de las IV Jornadas Andaluzas de Software Libre
Libro de actas de las jornadas, celebradas en 2004 en la Escuela Politécnica Superior de Algeciras, Universidad de Cádiz.
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Desarrollo multiplataforma con wxWindows
II Jornadas Andaluzas de Software Libre (JASL).
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