## To be read ASAP

[[on_macros,_lisp,_...]]

* *[The Essence of Command Injection Attacks in Web Applications](www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/publications/popl06.pdf)*, by Su, Wassermann
* *collective dynamics of "small-world" networks*, by Watts, Strogatz [Nature (393)(1998) 440-442]
* *motivation of software developers in open source projects: an Internet-based survey of contributors to the Linux kernel* (should be about burnout), by Hertel, Niedner, Hermann
* *quality and the reliance on individuals in free software project* (3rd workshop on open source software engineering) by Michlmayr and Hill
* *[extracting (easily) checkable proofs from a satisfiability solver that employs both preorder and postorder resolution](ftp://ftp.cse.ucsc.edu/pub/avg/CBJ/sat-pre-post.ps.gz)* by Gelder
* *validating sat solvers using an independent resolution-based checker: practical implementations and other applications* by Zhang, Malik
* *the power of gifts: organizing social relationships in open source communities* (information systems journal) by Berquist, Ljungberg)
* *evidences in the evolution of OS projects through changelog analyses* by Capiluppi, Lago, Morisio
* *[clustering and dependencies in free/open source software development: methodology and tools](http://dxm.org/papers/toulouse2/cluster-final.pdf)* by Ghosh
* *[putting it all in the trunk: incremental software engineering in the FreeBSD
Open Source
project](http://www.ruc.dk/~nielsj/research/publications/freebsd.pdf)* by
Jorgensen
* *[on the security of open source
software](http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2575.2002.00118.x)*
by Payne
* *[Code quality analysis in open source software development](http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2575.2002.00117.x)* by Stamelos, Angelis, Oikonomou, and Bleris
* *[The social structure of free and open source software development](http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/crowstonhowison.pdf)* by Crowston and Howison
* *Optimal release time of improved versions of software packages* by Levin and Yadid
* *[Quality practices and problems in free software projects](http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/michlmayr_hunt_probert-quality_practices_problems.pdf)* by Michlmayr, Hunt, Probert
* *[Rules and Tools for Software Evolution Planning and Management](http://www.springerlink.com/content/l4216085h77324q6/fulltext.pdf)* by Lehman and Ramil
* *[metrics and laws of software evolution - the nineties view](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/5031/13795/00637156.pdf?tp=&arnumber=637156&isnumber=13795)* by Lehman and Ramil
* *[A Portable Compiler-Integrated Approach to Permanent Checking](http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1169310)* by Volanschi
* *Computer science education in the 21st century*, by Paterson, CACM 49(3):27-31
* *Experience report: using functional programming to manage a Linux distribution*, by Beshers, Fox, Shaw, ICFP'07
* *Cfengine: a site configuration engine*, Computing Systems 8(3), 1995
* *Making system configuration more declarative*, in HotOS X, USENIX, June 2005
* *Imposing a memory management discipline on software deployment*, by Dolstra, Visser, de Jonge, in ICSE 2004
* *A principled approach to operating system construction in Haskell* by Hallgren, Jones, Leslie, Tolmach, ICFP'05
* *[Abstract Interpretation: a Semantics-Based Tool for Program Analysis](ftp://ftp.diku.dk/diku/semantics/papers/D-58.ps.Z)* by Jones, Nielson, handbook of logic in computer science

### printed

* *[analyzing dependencies in large component-based systems](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/8183/24593/01115020.pdf)* (ASE 02) by Vieira, Richardson
* *[Applying social network analysis techniques to community-driven libre software projects](http://ladyr.es/assets/files/papers/llopez/jounalPapers/06_Lopez_ijitwe_sna.pdf)* by Lopez, Barahona, Herraiz, Robles
* *[Release management within open source projects](http://www.erenkrantz.com/Geeks/Research/Publications/ReleaseManagement.pdf)* by Erenkrantz
* *[Checking System Rules Using System-Specific, Programmer-Written Compiler Extensions](http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/mc-osdi.ps)* by Engler et al
* *[An Abstract Interpretation-Based Framework for Software Watermarking](http://www.di.ens.fr/~cousot/COUSOTpapers/POPL04.shtml)* by Cousot and Cousot
* *[effort, cooperation and coordination in an open source software project: GNOME](http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2575.2002.00110.x)* (information systems journal) by Koch, Schneider
* *[two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla](http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=567795&type=pdf&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=26279986&CFTOKEN=98303047)* (ACM TOSE) by Mockus, Fielding, Herbsleb

## Other stuff to look at

* *smart package manager* by Niemeyer <http://labix.org/smart>

## Recently read papers

* *[Finding similar files in a large file system](http://www.usenix.org/publications//library/proceedings/sf94/full_papers/manber.finding)* by Manber, USENIX 1994
* *[Syntactic clustering of the web](http://www.std.org/~msm/common/clustering.html)* by Broder, Glassman, Manasse, Zweig. WWW 1997
* *[On the resemblance and containment of documents](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr05/cos598E/bib/broder97resemblance.pdf)* by Broder
* *[Winnowing: Local Algorithms for Document Fingerprinting](http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/sigmod03.pdf) by Schleimer, Wilkerson, Aiken
* *[Static detection of security vulnerabilities in scripting languages](http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/usenix06.pdf)*, by Y. Xie and A. Aiken. In Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Security Symposium, July 2006.
* *[Designing a Generic Graph Library using ML Functors](http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ftp/publis/ocamlgraph.ps)* (TFP 2007)
* *[Abash: Finding Bugs in Bash Scripts](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/papers/MZ07.pdf)* by Mazurak and Zdancewic
* *[maintainability of the Linux kernel](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/5658/21556/00999087.pdf?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=999087)* (IEEE proceedings - software) by Schach, Jin, Wright, Heller, Offutt
* *[NixOS: a purely functional Linux Distribution](http://people.cs.uu.nl/andres/NixOS.html)* by Dolstra, Löh
* *release management in free software projects: practices and problems*, by Michlmayr, Hunt, Probert
* *how to have a successful free software project*, by Senyard, Michlmayr
* *from the cathedral to the bazaar: an empirical study of the lifecycle of volunteer community projects*, by Capiluppi, Michlmayr
* *mining large software compilations over time: another perspective on software evolution*, by Robles, Gonzales-Barahona, Michlmayr, Amor
* *managing the complexity of large free and open source package-based software distributions*, by Mancinelli, Boender, Di Cosmo, Vouillon, Durak, Leroy, Treinen
* *improving the quality of GNU/Linux distributions: a sound approach*, by Mancinelli, Boender, Di Cosmo, Durak
* *[inter-package dependency networks in open-source software](http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.SE/0411096)* by La Belle, Wallingford
* *managing volunteer activity in free software projects*, by Michlmayr
* *OPIUM: optimal package install/uninstall manager*, by Tucker, Shuffelton, Jhala, Lerner