Consumption and production of digital public goods modeling the impact of different success metrics

Nicholas P. Radtke; Marcus Janssen

Consumption and production of digital public goods modeling the impact of different success metrics

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Abstract

With the Internet has come the phenomenon of people volunteering to work on digital public goods such as open source software and online encyclopedia articles. Presumably, the success of individual public goods has an effect on attracting volunteers. However, the definition of success is ill-defined. This paper explores the impact of different success metrics on a simple public goods model. The findings show that the success metrics considered have minimal impact on the behavior of the model, leading to the conclusion that many proposed success metrics measure the same phenomenon.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Spring Simulation Multiconference 2009 - Co-located with the 2009 SISO Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
State	Published - Mar 22 2009
Event	2009 Spring Simulation Multiconference, SpringSim 2009 - San Diego, United States Duration: Mar 22 2009 → Mar 27 2009

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Other	2009 Spring Simulation Multiconference, SpringSim 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	3/22/09 → 3/27/09

Keywords

Digital public goods
FLOSS
Open source software
Success metrics
Wikipedia

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Modeling and Simulation

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Consumption and production of digital public goods modeling the impact of different success metrics. / Radtke, Nicholas P.; Janssen, Marcus.
Spring Simulation Multiconference 2009 - Co-located with the 2009 SISO Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2009. 26.

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Radtke, NP & Janssen, M 2009, Consumption and production of digital public goods modeling the impact of different success metrics. in Spring Simulation Multiconference 2009 - Co-located with the 2009 SISO Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop., 26, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2009 Spring Simulation Multiconference, SpringSim 2009, San Diego, United States, 3/22/09.

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