The stigmergy collaboration approach provides a hypothesized explanation about how online groups work together. In this research, we presented a stigmergy approach for building an agent based open source software (OSS) developer community collaboration simulation. We used group of actors who collaborate on OSS projects as our frame of reference and investigated how the choices actors make in contribution their work on the projects determinate the global status of the whole OSS projects. In our simulation, the forum posts and project codes served as the digital pheromone and the modified Pierre-Paul Grasse pheromone model is used for computing developer agent behaviors selection probability.
['Xiaohui Cui', 'Justin M. Beaver', 'Jim N. Treadwell', 'Thomas E. Potok', 'Laura L. Pullum']
A Stigmergy Approach for Open Source Software Developer Community Simulation