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What is Co-Evolution

Chapter 31
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
This term describes how tools and their users symbiotically influence each other’s evolution. Used in the community context to describe how users and other community roles (and products) influence each other’s evolution.
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Collaborative Development within Open Source Communities
Javier Soriano (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Sonia Frutos (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), and Jiménez. Miguel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch031
Abstract
Open source communities are one of the most successful-- and least appreciated--examples of high-performance collaboration and community building on the Internet today. Open source communities began as loosely organized, ad-hoc communities of contributors from all over the world who shared an interest in meeting a common need. However, the organization of these communities has proven to be very flexible and capable of carrying out all kind of developments, ranging from minor projects to huge programs such as Apache (Höhn, & Herr, 2004; Mockus, Fielding, & Herbsleb, 2005).
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Evolution of ArchiMate and ArchiMate Models: An Operations Catalogue for Automating the Migration of ArchiMate Models
When two or more entities reciprocally affect each other’s evolution. In the present scope, meta-model evolution has repercussions on its conforming models, consequently forcing these to also evolve accordingly.
Published in Chapter: Evolution of ArchiMate and ArchiMate Models: An Operations Catalogue for Automating the Migration of ArchiMate Models; From: New Perspectives on Information Systems Modeling and Design
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Does the One Who Asks the Question Lead the Way?
Development process in which stimulus by other processes results in progression and mutation.
Published in Chapter: Does the One Who Asks the Question Lead the Way?; From: Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements
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