Towards a Game Theoretical Model for Software Crowdsourcing Processes

Wenjun Wu (), Wei-Tek Tsai (), Zhenghui Hu () and Yuchuan Wu ()
Additional contact information
Wenjun Wu: Beihang University
Wei-Tek Tsai: Arizona State University
Zhenghui Hu: Beihang University
Yuchuan Wu: Beihang University

A chapter in Crowdsourcing, 2015, pp 143-161 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Recently software crowdsourcing has become an emerging development paradigm in software ecosystems. This paper first introduces a software crowdsourcing framework in the context of software ecosystems. The framework includes a game-theoretical model for peer software production to describe the competitive nature of software crowdsourcing. The analysis of this model indicates that if the only reward is the prize, only superior developers will participate in the software crowdsourcing. This explains the phenomenon that while software crowdsourcing is open for anyone to compete, but only few will engage in competition. This is validated by a large historical data collected from a popular software crowdsourcing website over a 10-years period. Further, we perform a case study on a NASA software crowdsourcing project to take a closer examination at how community developers participate in different types of tasks through the software crowdsourcing process.

Keywords: Reputation System; Global Software Development; Contest Success Function; Reputation Mechanism; Component Implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-662-47011-4_9

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783662470114

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-47011-4_9

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Progress in IS from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().