Fat tails, long memory, maturity and ageing in open-source software projects

Challet, Damien and Valverde, Sergi (2008) Fat tails, long memory, maturity and ageing in open-source software projects. In: 1st International ICST Workshop on Physics Inspired Paradigms for Wireless Communications and Network.

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Abstract

We report activity data analysis on several open source software projects, focusing on time between modifications and on the number of files modified at once. Both have fat-tailed distributions, long-term memory, and display systematic non-trivial cross-correlations, suggesting that quiet periods ar

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Date Deposited: 04 Mar 2026 09:35
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URI: http://eprints.eai.eu/id/eprint/7063

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