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- research-articleFebruary 2023
LiDetector: License Incompatibility Detection for Open Source Software
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Volume 32, Issue 1Article No.: 22, Pages 1–28https://doi.org/10.1145/3518994Open-source software (OSS) licenses dictate the conditions, which should be followed to reuse, distribute, and modify software. Apart from widely-used licenses such as the MIT License, developers are also allowed to customize their own licenses (called ...
- short-paperMarch 2022
A + B = C: How the Effective License Position Calculation for Software Isn’t That Simple
SIGUCCS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGUCCS Annual ConferencePage 47https://doi.org/10.1145/3501292.3511564A foundation of effective software asset management, the Effective License Position (ELP) is a seemingly straightforward calculation: What software is deployed in your organization versus what your organization is entitled to use. This is simple in ...
- research-articleSeptember 2014
Defining expressive access policies for linked data using the ODRL ontology 2.0
SEM '14: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic SystemsPages 20–23https://doi.org/10.1145/2660517.2660530Together with the latest efforts in publishing Linked (Open) Data, legal issues around publishing and consuming such data are gaining increased interest. Particular areas of interest include (i) how to define more expressive access policies which go ...
- ArticleJune 2014
API Terms and Conditions as a Service
SCC '14: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Services ComputingPages 386–393https://doi.org/10.1109/SCC.2014.58Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has evolved from business-to-business interactions, into the new API model that enables open partnerships and interoperability with just about anyone. In SOA, terms of service (ToS) and service level agreements (SLAs) ...
- ArticleJuly 2013
Automatic Adding License Management Functionality for Android Applications
ASIAJCIS '13: Proceedings of the 2013 Eighth Asia Joint Conference on Information SecurityPages 122–126https://doi.org/10.1109/ASIAJCIS.2013.26With the growth of applications on mobile devices, developers can easy distribute their applications by the various software marketplaces. Generally, the applications need some code to execute license management functionality, and so developers must ...
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- ArticleSeptember 2012
Quality Assurance for Education Content and Evaluation of Mastery of Skills by Using Qualifying Examinations in University Classes
IIAI-AAI '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IIAI International Conference on Advanced Applied InformaticsPages 309–313https://doi.org/10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2012.67We discuss quality assurance for education content and evaluation of mastery of skills by using qualifying examinations in university or college classes. It is considered that there are three merits in using those examinations: eClarity of degree of ...
- ArticleJanuary 2012
Platform Pricing with Strategic Buyers
HICSS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System SciencesPages 4535–4544https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2012.473Digital platforms are ubiquitous. While there has been a growing academic literature on platform strategies, little is known about platform pricing when buyers are strategic. In contrast to myopic buyers--who make decisions solely based on their current ...
- abstractMarch 2011
Intellectual property policy and attractiveness: a longitudinal study of free and open source software projects
- Carlos Denner Santos,
- Marcos Bonci Cavalca,
- Fabio Kon,
- Julio Singer,
- Victor Ritter,
- Damaris Regina,
- Tamy Tsujimoto
CSCW '11: Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative workPages 705–708https://doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958950This paper reports early findings of a longitudinal study designed to evaluate the impact of changes in the intellectual property policy of 756 free and open source projects on their attractiveness over 44 months.
- ArticleOctober 2010
Multi-Language and Heterogeneously-licensed Software Analysis
WCRE '10: Proceedings of the 2010 17th Working Conference on Reverse EngineeringPages 293–296https://doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2010.43Today software systems are built with heterogeneous languages such as Java, C, C++, XML, Perl or Python just to name a few. This introduces new challenges both in the software analysis domain and program evolution as programmers are forced to cope with ...
- ArticleSeptember 2010
ASAAS: Application Software as a Service for High Performance Cloud Computing
HPCC '10: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 12th International Conference on High Performance Computing and CommunicationsPages 156–163https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCC.2010.76Currently, SAAS (Software as a Service) solutions are usually provided for business, such as salesforce.com. Few work focus on the application software for high performance scientific computing. However, in the high performance cloud computing ...
- ArticleDecember 2009
Rights Expression In Database Rights Management Based on XrML
ICIII '09: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering - Volume 04Pages 333–336https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIII.2009.540The central aspect of Digital Rights Management is Rights Expression Languages (RELs) which express and transfer rights from one party to another interoperable format. This paper provides an analysis on RELs and defines the main entities model to ...
- ArticleNovember 2009
Semantic Expression and Execution of B2B Contracts on Multimedia Content
SAMT '09: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies: Semantic MultimediaPages 89–100https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10543-2_10Business to business commerce of audiovisual material can be governed by electronic contracts, in the same way as digital licenses govern business to consumer transactions. The digital licenses for end users have been expressed either in proprietary ...
- ArticleSeptember 2009
Regulatory Approach to Introduction of WiMAX in Bosnia and Herzegovina
ICSNC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 Fourth International Conference on Systems and Networks CommunicationsPages 68–71https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSNC.2009.78The paper focuses on the implementation of WiMAX in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). A brief overview of the regulatory and legislative framework for the service implementation is given. It encompasses review of present characteristics of ...
- ArticleDecember 2008
Dynamic Expression of Digital Rights by Rewriting License
CSSE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering - Volume 03Pages 681–683https://doi.org/10.1109/CSSE.2008.933In this paper, we propose a kind of dynamic expression of digital rights by rewriting license for digital rights management based on multiset rewriting and logic programming. Firstly, the essential elements definition is introduced. After that, the ...
- research-articleOctober 2008
A formal conceptual model for rights
DRM '08: Proceedings of the 8th ACM workshop on Digital rights managementPages 29–38https://doi.org/10.1145/1456520.1456528Emergence of different digital rights management (DRM) systems and various rights expression languages (RELs) has led to problems with DRM interoperability and smooth flow of content across different content management systems. The complexity, varied ...
- ArticleOctober 2007
Implementation of software license management support system
SIGUCCS '07: Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM SIGUCCS fall conferencePages 122–124https://doi.org/10.1145/1294046.1294074Managing the software license in PCs is very important and difficult. Many companies pay much attention to making sure the software is used legally even using expensive tools to verify this. In universities, it is not easy for teachers and students to ...
- research-articleSeptember 2007
Negotiation program on licensing practice of intellectual property right management in information technology
LawTech '07: Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Law and TechnologyPages 13–17In this study, we introduce a negotiation program on licensing practice of intellectual property (IP) right management in information technology. The proposed program has a purpose to accelerate the spontaneous understanding of the collaborative ...
- ArticleJune 2007
Licensing digital content with a generic ontology: escaping from the jungle of rights expression languages
ICAIL '07: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial intelligence and lawPages 65–69https://doi.org/10.1145/1276318.1276330Digital contents distributed over the internet are regulated by law and by technical management systems. The latter include a semantic component that describes licenses, i.e. rights of use which are granted to the user. These elements of Digital Rights ...
- research-articleFebruary 2007
Intellectual Property and Software Piracy: The Power of IP Protection and Software Licensing, an interview with Aladdin vice president Gregg Gronowski
We’re here today to talk about intellectual property and the whole issue of software piracy and our friends at Aladdin are considered one of the de facto standards today for protecting software IP, preventing software piracy, and enabling software ...
- interviewFebruary 2007
Software Operations’ Profit Potential: Today’s software producer faces many challenges in building and keeping a satisfied customer base. In this ACM Premium Queuecast, Macrovision FLEXnet Publisher Product Manager Mitesh Pancholy discusses how companies can solve their license management challenges and turn their software operations into a profit center.
Joining me today is Mitesh Pancholy, Product Manager for Macrovision, and Abby Domini, also with Macrovision. We’re going to talk about license management today.