5 papers
Profitability of Open-Source Software Product Development
Shivendu P. Singh, Narayan Ramasubbu, Chris F. Kemerer +1
Many technology firms now build software products in the open, inviting outside developers to contribute alongside their employees on platforms like GitHub. Does this openness in p…
Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems
Muhammad Zia Hydari, Raja Iqbal, Narayan Ramasubbu
Agentic AI systems are increasingly being explored as production infrastructure: they reason over multiple steps, call tools, act through workflows, and adapt through memory and fe…
Modeling Agentic Technical Debt and Stochastic Tax: A Standalone Framework for Measurement, Simulation, and Dashboarding
Muhammad Zia Hydari, Raja Iqbal, Narayan Ramasubbu
Agentic AI systems combine probabilistic reasoning with delegated action through tools, context, memory, orchestration, and external workflow integration. This note develops a form…
Breaking Bad Email Habits: Bounding the Impact of Simulated Phishing Campaigns
Muhammad Zia Hydari, Idris Adjerid, Yingda Lu +1
Simulated phishing campaigns are widely deployed, yet the behavioral data they produce is endogenous: because training is triggered by clicking, the employees receiving interventio…
Accountability in Open Source Software Ecosystems: Workshop Report
Nandini Sharma, Thomas Bock, Rich Bowen +21
Open source software ecosystems are composed of a variety of stakeholders including but not limited to non-profit organizations, volunteer contributors, users, and corporations. Th…