SGER: The Synergy of Conflict and Creativity in Open Source Software Development Communities

SGER：开源软件开发社区中冲突与创造力的协同作用

• 批准号: 0718648
• 负责人: Levent Yilmaz
• 金额: $ 7.65万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0718648&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Synergy; Conflict; Creativity; Open

The objectives of this project are to explore how task, process, and interrelationship conflicts affect creative processes and what specific forms of conflict avoidance, management, and resolution strategies are conducive to promoting creative processes and organizational innovation. Computational models of specific individual, group, and organization characteristics will be used to define project configuration, which will influence the group and organizational dynamics in hypothetical Open Source Software development societies and cultures. Each such project entails a virtual organization and a community of practice, the members of which collaborate and coordinate their activities to design and develop innovative and creative software products. The simulation study is expected to generate hypotheses regarding mechanisms that open source software development societies could implement to improve organizational creativity at multiple resolutions, including human, team, and organization levels. The hypotheses will be generalized to suggest principles for design cognition and IT tool support that facilitates implementation of the selected strategies. Simulation-based design of such IT strategies will be enabled based on the developed testbed.Broader Impact. During the period of the study, the PI will organize informal meetings at Auburn University to raise awareness on creativity research to facilitate development of an interdisciplinary group of researchers across engineering and social sciences faculty. The findings of the study will be transferred to the software modeling and design class offered by the PI at the Auburn University. This will enhance design learning and cognition via improved processes and activities (e.g., styles of collaborative problem solving) that will be hypothesized to be conducive to design creativity. A minority student, who is already working on an Open Source Software Development Process Simulation project as part of his master thesis under the supervision of the PI, will be funded as a graduate research assistant. This opportunity will increase the level of diversity in the Auburn Modeling and Simulation Group that is led by the PI.

该项目的目标是探讨任务、流程和相互关系冲突如何影响创意过程，以及哪些具体形式的冲突避免、管理和解决策略有利于促进创意过程和组织创新。特定个人、群体和组织特征的计算模型将用于定义项目配置，这将影响假设的开源软件开发社会和文化中的群体和组织动态。每个此类项目都需要一个虚拟组织和一个实践社区，其成员协作并协调其活动，以设计和开发创新和创意软件产品。模拟研究预计将产生有关开源软件开发协会可以实施的机制的假设，以在多个分辨率（包括人员、团队和组织级别）上提高组织创造力。这些假设将被概括为设计认知和 IT 工具支持的原则，以促进所选策略的实施。此类 IT 策略的基于模拟的设计将基于开发的测试平台实现。影响更广泛。在研究期间，PI将在奥本大学组织非正式会议，以提高人们对创造力研究的认识，以促进工程和社会科学学院跨学科研究人员小组的发展。研究结果将转移到奥本大学 PI 提供的软件建模和设计课程中。这将通过改进的流程和活动（例如协作解决问题的方式）来增强设计学习和认知，假设这些流程和活动有利于设计创造力。一名少数族裔学生已经在 PI 的监督下从事开源软件开发过程模拟项目，作为其硕士论文的一部分，该学生将作为研究生研究助理获得资助。这个机会将提高 PI 领导的奥本建模和仿真小组的多样性水平。