OCEAN

UVM-Google Open-Source Complex Ecosystems and Networks


About

The goal of this Vermont Complex Systems Center project at the University of Vermont is to deepen understanding of how people, teams and organizations thrive in technology-rich settings, especially in open-source projects and communities. The Google Open-Source Programs Office, a division of Google that manages Google’s use and release of open source software and promotes open source programming, has provided the University of Vermont (UVM) Complex Systems Center a $1 million unrestricted gift to support open source research. The Google award will establish a collaboration between the Google Open Source team and UVM to begin building a community-oriented body of research focused on understanding how open source platforms are used and what makes technology-rich environments thrive.

The University of Vermont Complex Systems team has identified the initial research projects that will be conducted with the award. They include:

  • How people, teams, and organizations thrive in technology-rich settings.
  • Trade-offs between organizational structure and the spread of ideas and information.
  • Investigating how scientists and software developers use computational and collaborative tools and platforms.
  • Understanding what conditions allow individuals and communities to succeed in open source software and open science.

OCEAN Principal Investigators

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OCEAN Core Team

James Bagrow

OCEAN PI, Vermont Complex Systems Center, Mathematics and Statistics, UVM

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

OCEAN PI, Vermont Complex Systems Center, Computer Science, UVM

Juniper Lovato

OCEAN Program Director, Vermont Complex Systems Center, Computer Science, UVM

Jean-Gabriel Young

OCEAN Research Assistant Professor, Vermont Complex Systems Center, Mathematics and Statistics, UVM

John Meluso

OCEAN Postdoctoral Fellow, Vermont Complex Systems Center, UVM

Milo Trujillo

OCEAN PhD Fellow, Vermont Complex Systems Center, UVM

Josh Bongard

OCEAN Senior Personnel, Vermont Complex Systems Center, Computer Science, UVM

Nick Cheney

OCEAN Senior Personnel, Vermont Complex Systems Center, Computer Science, UVM

Chris Danforth

OCEAN Senior Personnel, Vermont Complex Systems Center, Mathematics and Statistics, UVM

Peter Sheridan Dodds

OCEAN Senior Personnel and Director of the Vermont Complex Systems Center, Computer Science, UVM

Publications

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Invisible labor in open source software ecosystems | ArXiv Preprint

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A review and framework for modeling complex engineered system development processes | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

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Flexible environments for hybrid collaboration: Redesigning virtual work through the four orders of design | Design Issues

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Which contributions count? Analysis of attribution in open source | 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on MSR