Package Network Model: A Way to Capture Holistic Structural Features of Open-Source Operating Systems
Open-source software has become a powerful engine for the development of the software industry. Its production mode, which is based on large-scale group collaboration, allows for the rapid and continuous evolution of open-source software on demand. As an important branch of open-source software, ope...
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| author | Jing Wang Kedi Zhang Xiaoli Sun Yusong Tan Qingbo Wu Quanyuan Wu |
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| description | Open-source software has become a powerful engine for the development of the software industry. Its production mode, which is based on large-scale group collaboration, allows for the rapid and continuous evolution of open-source software on demand. As an important branch of open-source software, open-source operating systems are commonly used in modern service industries such as finance, logistics, education, medical care, e-commerce and tourism, etc. The reliability of these systems is increasingly valued. However, a self-organizing and loosely coupled development approach complicates the structural analysis of open-source operating system software. Traditional methods focus on analysis at the local level. There is a lack of research on the relationship between internal attributes and external overall characteristics. Consequently, conventional methods are difficult to adapt to complex software systems, especially the structural analysis of open-source operating system software. It is therefore of great significance to capture the holistic structure and behavior of the software system. Complex network theory, which is adequate for this task, can make up for the deficiency of traditional software structure evaluation methods that focus only on local structure. In this paper, we propose a package network model, which is a directed graph structure, to describe the dependency of open-source operating system software packages. Based on the Ubuntu Kylin Linux Operating system, we construct a software package dependency network of each distributed version and analyze the structural evolution through the dimensions of scale, density, connectivity, cohesion, and heterogeneity of each network. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-141acaac6a7447a5b718fce6d55c0d0a2022-12-22T02:56:43ZengMDPI AGSymmetry2073-89942019-02-0111217210.3390/sym11020172sym11020172Package Network Model: A Way to Capture Holistic Structural Features of Open-Source Operating SystemsJing Wang0Kedi Zhang1Xiaoli Sun2Yusong Tan3Qingbo Wu4Quanyuan Wu5College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, ChinaCollege of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, ChinaCollege of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, ChinaCollege of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, ChinaCollege of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, ChinaCollege of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, ChinaOpen-source software has become a powerful engine for the development of the software industry. Its production mode, which is based on large-scale group collaboration, allows for the rapid and continuous evolution of open-source software on demand. As an important branch of open-source software, open-source operating systems are commonly used in modern service industries such as finance, logistics, education, medical care, e-commerce and tourism, etc. The reliability of these systems is increasingly valued. However, a self-organizing and loosely coupled development approach complicates the structural analysis of open-source operating system software. Traditional methods focus on analysis at the local level. There is a lack of research on the relationship between internal attributes and external overall characteristics. Consequently, conventional methods are difficult to adapt to complex software systems, especially the structural analysis of open-source operating system software. It is therefore of great significance to capture the holistic structure and behavior of the software system. Complex network theory, which is adequate for this task, can make up for the deficiency of traditional software structure evaluation methods that focus only on local structure. In this paper, we propose a package network model, which is a directed graph structure, to describe the dependency of open-source operating system software packages. Based on the Ubuntu Kylin Linux Operating system, we construct a software package dependency network of each distributed version and analyze the structural evolution through the dimensions of scale, density, connectivity, cohesion, and heterogeneity of each network.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/11/2/172open-source operating systemcomplex networksoftware structure analysis |
| spellingShingle | Jing Wang Kedi Zhang Xiaoli Sun Yusong Tan Qingbo Wu Quanyuan Wu Package Network Model: A Way to Capture Holistic Structural Features of Open-Source Operating Systems Symmetry open-source operating system complex network software structure analysis |
| title | Package Network Model: A Way to Capture Holistic Structural Features of Open-Source Operating Systems |
| title_full | Package Network Model: A Way to Capture Holistic Structural Features of Open-Source Operating Systems |
| title_fullStr | Package Network Model: A Way to Capture Holistic Structural Features of Open-Source Operating Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Package Network Model: A Way to Capture Holistic Structural Features of Open-Source Operating Systems |
| title_short | Package Network Model: A Way to Capture Holistic Structural Features of Open-Source Operating Systems |
| title_sort | package network model a way to capture holistic structural features of open source operating systems |
| topic | open-source operating system complex network software structure analysis |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/11/2/172 |
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