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A SECO Meta-model

A Common Vocabulary of the SECO Research Domain

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Software Business (ICSOB 2019)

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Abstract

Software development companies are venturing towards collaborative approach and software ecosystems (SECO) participation. Over the years, many papers have been written and different modelling languages were proposed to capture the interactions between the SECO participants. What is missing, however, is a comprehensive meta-model describing possible entities and relationships that constitute a SECO. The goal of this paper is to create a common language for academic researchers for software ecosystems by creating such a meta-model. We constructed the meta-model by extracting and grouping entities and relationships from research papers. The meta-model consists of 5 themes: actors and roles, products and platforms, boundaries, ecosystem health and strategy. We advocate that our meta-model allows for easy sharing and comparing of case studies and the generalization of results across studies. We present the results from initial expert evaluation of the meta-model.

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Notes

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    The final list of selected papers is available online at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZzUHA7H22jPm7IfcHSv1AxSRd2hTQ5ye.

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    The full list of codes and sources for building entities is available at online at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZzUHA7H22jPm7IfcHSv1AxSRd2hTQ5ye.

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  1. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht Universty, 3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    J. Wouters, J. R. Ritmeester, A. W. Carlsen & Slinger Jansen

  2. Department of Software Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlsrkona, Sweden

    Krzysztof Wnuk

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  1. Tampere University of Technology, Pori, Finland

    Sami Hyrynsalmi

  2. University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Mari Suoranta

  3. University of South-Eastern Norway, Bø i Telemark, Norway

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Appendix A: The Full Meta-model

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Wouters, J., Ritmeester, J.R., Carlsen, A.W., Jansen, S., Wnuk, K. (2019). A SECO Meta-model. In: Hyrynsalmi, S., Suoranta, M., Nguyen-Duc, A., Tyrväinen, P., Abrahamsson, P. (eds) Software Business. ICSOB 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 370. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33742-1_4

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