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Developing a Framework and an Instrument for Measuring System Openness

Developing a Framework and an Instrument for Measuring System Openness

Tope Omitola, Gary Wills
Copyright: © 2020 |Volume: 10 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 42
ISSN: 1947-9344|EISSN: 1947-9352|EISBN13: 9781799806516|DOI: 10.4018/IJOCI.2020070104
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Omitola, Tope, and Gary Wills. "Developing a Framework and an Instrument for Measuring System Openness." IJOCI vol.10, no.3 2020: pp.55-96. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOCI.2020070104

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Omitola, T. & Wills, G. (2020). Developing a Framework and an Instrument for Measuring System Openness. International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI), 10(3), 55-96. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOCI.2020070104

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Omitola, Tope, and Gary Wills. "Developing a Framework and an Instrument for Measuring System Openness," International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI) 10, no.3: 55-96. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOCI.2020070104

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Abstract

This article describes the process of developing a framework and an instrument for measuring and ascertaining the openness of a system applicable to system architectures and their implementations. Our process includes an in-depth review of pertinent literature in the areas of Open Systems and Open Architecture, followed by a selection of the appropriate methodology to use. We chose the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) methodology to allow us to select relevant goals, factors and metric that can be used to measure a system's level of openness. The article details these goals, factors and metrics. We carried out studies of these factors with fourteen experts in open systems engineering: an initial study with seven of these experts helping us refine the selected goals, factors and metrics, with a second confirmatory study performed in conjunction with the remaining seven experts. The goals, questions and metrics are detailed in the appendices.

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