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A Study on Characteristics of Open Source Software Development Projects in the Areas of Engineering and GamesAbstractThis paper investigates characteristics of Open Source
Software (OSS) development projects based on the
number of participants and their roles and activities in the
areas of Games and Science/Engineering. We utilized
Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and clustering over
the data from SourceForge.net, and the features that we
considered and analyzed for this study include number of
users, number of developers, number of message
postings, number of file releases, and project
subcategories. For the categories of Games and
Engineering, the three most active subcategories within
each were identified, and the result indicates that most of
the Games and Engineering projects have similar
characteristics in terms of the selected features and are
small with about five users. The result also shows that a
group of Engineering projects seem highly specialized
and require more subject knowledge in executing the projects than other Games projects.KeywordsOpen Source Software Projects, Games, Engineering, PCA, Clustering. To see the electronic version of the paper, pleaseClick Here
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