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Cailean Osborne
dblp:372/3468
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3ranked-venue papers
1as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-4018-8488ORCID · corroborated
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Empirical software engineering · 87% Software maintenance and evolution · 13% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Empirical software engineering
open source software |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Systematic Literature Review of Commercial Participation in Open Source Software · ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 2025 |
Empirical software engineering
systematic literature review |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Systematic Literature Review of Commercial Participation in Open Source Software · ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 2025 |
Software maintenance and evolution › software ecosystems
open source software ecosystem |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Systematic Literature Review of Commercial Participation in Open Source Software · ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
systematic literature review · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Characterising Open Source Co-opetition in Company-hosted Open Source Software Projects: The Cases of PyTorch, TensorFlow, and TransformersabstractCompanies, including market rivals, have long collaborated on open source software (OSS) development, resulting in a tangle of co-operation and competition known as "open source co-opetition". While prior work investigates open source co-opetition in OSS projects that are hosted by vendor-neutral foundations, we have a limited understanding thereof in OSS projects that are hosted and governed by one company. Given their prevalence, it is timely to investigate open source co-opetition in such contexts. Towards this end, we conduct a mixed-methods analysis of three company-hosted OSS projects in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry: Meta's PyTorch prior to its donation to the Linux Foundation, Google's TensorFlow, and Hugging Face's Transformers. We contribute three key findings. First, while the projects exhibit similar code authorship patterns between host and external companies (~80%/20% of commits), collaborations are structured differently (e.g. decentralised vs. hub-and-spoke networks). Second, host and external companies engage in strategic, non-strategic, and contractual collaborations, with varying incentives and collaboration practices. Some of the observed collaborations are specific to the AI industry (e.g. AI model integrations), while others are typical of the broader software industry (e.g. bug fixing or task outsourcing). Third, single-vendor governance creates a power imbalance that influences open source co-opetition practices and possibilities, from the host company's singular decision-making power (e.g. the risk of license changes) to their community involvement strategy (e.g. from over-control to over-delegation). We conclude with recommendations for future research. Cailean Osborne, Farbod Daneshyan, Runzhi He, Hengzhi Ye, Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou 0001 |
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. | 1 |
| 2025 | Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practicesabstractComputational models are complex scientific constructs that have become essential for us to better understand the world. Many models are valuable for peers within and beyond disciplinary boundaries. However, there are no widely agreed-upon standards for sharing models. This paper suggests 10 simple rules for you to both (i) ensure you share models in a way that is at least "good enough," and (ii) enable others to lead the change towards better model-sharing practices. Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Christopher Erdmann, Sandra Gesing, C. Michael Barton, Lauren Cadwallader, Geerten M. Hengeveld, Christine R. Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Knight, Carsten Lemmen, Rebecca Ringuette, Qing Zhan, Melissa Harrison, Feilim Mac Gabhann, Natalie Meyers, Cailean Osborne, Charlotte Till, Paul R. Brenner, Matt Buys, Min Chen 0008, Allen Lee, Jason A. Papin, Yuhan Rao |
PLoS Comput. Biol. | 15 |
| 2025 | Systematic Literature Review of Commercial Participation in Open Source SoftwareabstractOpen source software (OSS) has been playing a fundamental role in not only information technology but also our social lives. Attracted by various advantages of OSS, increasing commercial companies are participating extensively in open source development, and this has had a broad impact. Enormous research efforts have been devoted to understanding this phenomenon and trying to pursue a win-win result. To characterize the current research achievement and identify challenges, this article provides a comprehensive systematic literature review (SLR) of existing research on company participation in OSS. We collected 105 papers and organized them based on their research topics, which cover three main directions, i.e., participation motivation, contribution model, and impact on OSS development. We found that companies have diverse motivations from economic, technological, and social aspects, and no one study covered all the motivation categories. Existing studies categorize five main companies’ contribution models in OSS projects through their objectives and how they shape OSS communities. Researchers also explored how commercial participation affects OSS development, including companies, developers, and OSS projects. This study contributes to a comprehensive understanding of commercial participation in OSS development. Based on our findings, we present a set of research challenges and promising directions for companies’ better participation in OSS. Xuetao Li, Yuxia Zhang, Cailean Osborne, Minghui Zhou 0001, Zhi Jin 0001, Hui Liu 0003 |
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. | 3 |