Vehicle platooning has been studied for several decades, with objectives such as improved
traffic throughput on existing infrastructure or reduced energy consumption. All the time, it …

Abstract 'Software ecosystems' is argued to first appear as a concept more than 10 years
ago and software ecosystem research started to take off in 2010. We conduct a systematic …

Software ecosystems are becoming a common model for software development in which
different actors cooperate around a shared platform. However, it is not clear what the …

Business settings and ecosystems have in the past three decades been transformed by
software utilization. It is being applied in several industries shaping innovation—platforms …

Context Commercial open source software (COSS) and community open source software
(OSS) are two types of open source software. The former is the newer concept with the …

Safety and Reliability–Theory and Applications contains the contributions presented at the
27th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2017, Portorož, Slovenia, June 18 …

In a software ecosystem, partner companies rely on each other to succeed and survive. This
scenario of mutual dependence entails a flow of power among companies. Power is an …

It has become an increasingly common practice for software companies to collaborate with
external developers in order to develop software platforms for a shared market, constituting …

The health of a software ecosystem is argued to be a key indicator of well-being, longevity
and performance of a network of companies. In this paper, we address what scientific …

Analyzing data with the help of Machine Learning (ML) promises to raise significant
potentials in all relevant target dimensions and different application fields of industrial …