Paper Info
Title
A case study on software ecosystem characteristics in industrial automation software
Abstract
In software ecosystems (SECOs) both internal and external developers build software solutions for specific market segments based on common technological platforms. Despite a significant body of research on SECOs there is still a need to empirically investigate the characteristics of SECOs in specific industrial environments to understand and improve development processes. In particular, when defining software processes understanding the roles of the participants in the SECO is crucial. This paper thus reports results of an exploratory case study in the industrial automation domain. We explore two research questions on SECO characteristics and discuss research issues we derived from our analyses. While our study confirms key SECO characteristics reported in the literature we also identify additional properties relevant for development processes in the domain of industrial automation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2600821.2600826
ICSSP
Keywords
Field
DocType
case study,development processes,industrial automation,reusable software,software ecosystems
Market segmentation,Systems engineering,Engineering management,Automation,Software,Engineering,Software ecosystem
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
0.73
33
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniela Lettner11527.25
Florian Angerer21076.78
Herbert Prähofer318917.00
Paul Grünbacher42007118.84