Using an open source decision-support tool, we demonstrated that protecting existing natural infrastructure including coastal dunes and wetlands could reduce the vulnerability of water resource-related structures, coastal populations, and farmland most exposed to coastal flooding and erosion.
Our collaborative and iterative approach, as well as replicable use of an open source decision-support tool, facilitated inclusion of relevant natural infrastructure information into regional climate adaptation planning processes and products.
In open source, that decision process is often bifurcated, happening in two separate steps.
Even a closed behemoth like Microsoft is now recognizing the value of open-sourced collaboration, recently announcing its decision to open source its server-side.NET Framework and also take it to Mac and Linux.
The feature set is then processed through Weka [ 39] using a J48 decision tree [ 40] classification algorithm, a popular open source implementation of the C4.5 decision tree algorithm.
The Weka suite open source implementation of the C4.5 decision tree algorithm has been named J48.
Google's decision to open source it's library is a surprising move in the growing Silicon Valley A.I. arms race.
Nokia's decision to open source Symbian in 2008 to try to compete with Android was of course too little too late.
The new version of MovableType looks wildly appealing to me as a blogger and the decision to open source the platform may well deliver broad numbers of WordPress converts back to the platform that started it all.
"If you look at the history, we made the decision to open source Kubernetes and make it a community-oriented project much sooner than conventional wisdom would dictate and focus on really building a community in an open and engaged fashion.
Nokia, the main Symbian user ergo the company with the most to lose as the OS fell behind, made the decision to open source Symbian in 2008 to try to accelerate its evolution to compete with its younger and more agile rivals.
