Table 1
Summary of Modeling Sustainability papers from Policy Panel. Adapted from [42].
| Paper/Authors | Software | Sustainability | Approach to Understand or Evaluate Sustainability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calero, et al. [43] | General notion of software. Not explicitly defined. | Sustainability is linked to quality. | Add to ISO |
| Venters, et al. [44] | Software as science software; increasingly complex; service-oriented computing | Extensibility, interoperability, maintainability, portability, reusability, scalability, efficiency | Use various architecture evaluation approaches to assess sustainability |
| Pierce, et al. [45] | Cyberinfrastructure software | Sustainable to the extent to which there is a community to support it | Open community governance |
| Katz, et al. [46] | E-research infrastructures (i.e. cyberinfrastructure) | Persisting over time, meeting original needs and projected needs | Equates models for the creation of software with sustaining software |
| Lenhardt, et al. [47] | Broadly defined as software supporting science | Re-use; reproducible science | Comparing data management life cycle to software development life cycle |
| Weber, et al. [48] | Software broadly defined; a software ecosystem | Software niches | Ecological analysis and ecosystem |