Software Evolution in Web-Service Ecosystems: A Game-Theoretic Model
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Abstract
Service orientation is the prevalent paradigm for modular distributed systems, giving rise to service ecosystems defined by software dependencies, which, at the same time, carry business and economic implications. And as software evolves, so do the business relationships among the ecosystem participants, with corresponding economic impact. Therefore, a more comprehensive model of software evolution is necessary in this context, to support the decision-making processes of the ecosystem participants. In this work, we view the ecosystem as a market environment, with providers offering competing services and developing these services to attract more clients by better satisfying their requirements. Based on an economic model for calculating the costs and values associated with service evolution, we develop a game-theoretic model to capture the interactions between providers and clients and support the providers’ decision-making process. We demonstrate the use of our model with a realistic example of a cloud-services ecosystem.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it