Computer Risks

This page summarizes ongoing research on Computer Risks, and particularly Cyber-Risks as well as investigation on Open Source Success (Failure).

Cyber-Risks

Identity Thefts as Proxy of Cyber-Risks: An Empirical Study

Spencer Wheatley, Thomas Maillart and Didier Sornette, The Extreme Risk of Personal Data Breaches & The Erosion of Privacy, ETH preprint (2015)
(external pagehttp://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07684)

T. Maillart and D. Sornette, Heavy-tailed distribution of cyber-risks, Eur. Phys. J. B 75, 357-364 (2010)
(external pagehttp://arXiv.org/abs/0803.2256) and (external pagehttp://infosecon.net/workshop/bibliography.php)

Success and Failure Mechanisms in Open Source Projects

Evolution of the Open Source Ecosystem

D. Sornette, T. Maillart and G. Ghezzi, How Much is the Whole Really More than the Sum of its Parts? 1+1=2.5: Superlinear Productivity in Collective Group Actions, PLoS ONE 9(8): e103023. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103023 (15 pp) (2014) (external pagehttp://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4298)

T. Maillart, D. Sornette, S. Spaeth and G. von Krogh, Empirical Tests of Zipf's law Mechanism In Open Source Linux Distribution, Physical Review Letters 101, 218701 (2008)
(external pagehttp://arXiv.org/abs/0807.0014)