%0 Journal Article %1 gorshenev03 %A Gorshenev, A. A. %A Pis'mak, Yury %D 2004 %J Physical Review E %K evolution software %N 067103 %T Punctuated Equilibrium in Software Evolution %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.70.067103 %V 70 %X The approach based on paradigm of self-organized criticality proposed for experimental investigation and theoretical modelling of software evolution. The dynamics of modifications studied for three free, open source programs Mozilla, Free-BSD and Emacs using the data from version control systems. Scaling laws typical for the self-organization criticality found. The model of software evolution presenting the natural selection principle is proposed. The results of numerical and analytical investigation of the model are presented. They are in a good agreement with the data collected for the real-world software.

@article{gorshenev03, abstract = {The approach based on paradigm of self-organized criticality proposed for experimental investigation and theoretical modelling of software evolution. The dynamics of modifications studied for three free, open source programs Mozilla, Free-BSD and Emacs using the data from version control systems. Scaling laws typical for the self-organization criticality found. The model of software evolution presenting the natural selection principle is proposed. The results of numerical and analytical investigation of the model are presented. They are in a good agreement with the data collected for the real-world software.}, added-at = {2006-09-25T06:12:49.000+0200}, author = {Gorshenev, A. A. and Pis'mak, Yury}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20bda8fd3530b8f5b78925408cd6a2e18/neilernst}, citeulike-article-id = {86436}, eprint = {cond-mat/0307201}, interhash = {e5dfd1bdc401a9f8cb3dd90a9851330a}, intrahash = {0bda8fd3530b8f5b78925408cd6a2e18}, journal = {Physical Review E}, keywords = {evolution software}, month = {July}, number = 067103, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2006-09-25T06:12:49.000+0200}, title = {Punctuated Equilibrium in Software Evolution}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.70.067103}, volume = 70, year = 2004 }