Everything about Open system (computing)

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Open system (computing)A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Entropy computing, a paradigm for optimization in open photonic systemsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: An open source IoT edge-computing system for monitoring energy consumption in buildingsCited 54 times
5. Go sideways: Hercules (emulator)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Sun Open StorageA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• An open source IoT edge-computing system for monitoring energy consumption in buildings

  Daniel Alfonso Verde Romero, Efrain Villalvazo Laureano, Ramón Octavio Jiménez Betancourt · 2024 · Results in Engineering · 54 citations

• MITICS (MALDI Imaging Team Imaging Computing System): A new open source mass spectrometry imaging software

  Olivia Jardin-Mathé, David Bonnel, Julien Franck · 2008 · Journal of Proteomics · 54 citations

• Software-Defined Edge Computing (SDEC): Principle, Open IoT System Architecture, Applications, and Challenges

  Pengfei Hu, Wai Chen, Chunming He · 2020 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 46 citations

• Using sequences of pulses to control coherence in an open quantum computing system

  Bi Qiao, Harry E. Ruda, J. F. Chang · 2002 · Journal of Applied Physics · 9 citations

• VAWS: Constructing Trusted Open Computing System of MapReduce with Verified Participants

  Yan DING, Huaimin WANG, Lifeng WEI · 2014 · IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems · 4 citations

• Soft computing models in an intellectual open-pit mines transport control system

  Temkin Igor, Deryabin Sergey, Konov Ilya · 2017 · Procedia Computer Science · 4 citations

• Computing Lorentz forces generated by gradient coils in an open MRI system

  Michael Anthony Brideson, Larry Forbes, James Jackson · 2008 · ANZIAM Journal · 3 citations

• Open Educational Resources (OER) for Sustainable Development using Autonomic Cloud Computing System

  Dept of Computer Engineering, YabaTech, Lagos, Nigeria, Nureni Asafe Yekini, Uduak Inyang-Udoh · 2016 · International Journal of Engineering and Manufacturing · 3 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Entropy computing, a paradigm for optimization in open photonic systems

  Lac Nguyen, Mohammad-Ali Miri, R. Joseph Rupert · 2025 · Communications Physics · 5 citations

• Modelling and performance analysis of a cloud computing system using an open queueing network with multi-server queues

  Shensheng Tang · 2023 · International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology · 1 citations

• GridPACK: A Unified Open-Source High-Performance Computing Platform for Scalable Power System Simulation

  Yousu Chen, Bruce Palmer, William Perkins · 2026 · IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy · 0 citations

• An open-source-based Information Security Management System for scientific computing: A reference implementation and case study

  Jose Ibán Cabrillo Bartolomé, Miguel Ángel Nuñez Vega, Aida Palacio Hoz · 2027 · Computers & Security · 0 citations

• Modelling and performance analysis of a cloud computing system using an open queueing network with multi-server queues

  Shensheng Tang · 2023 · International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin · 1791
• NeuromancerWilliam Gibson · 1984
• The C Programming LanguageBrian W. Kernighan, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie · 1978
• Cybernetics, or control and communication in the animal and the machineNorbert Wiener, Doug Hill · 1948
• Operating System ConceptsAbraham Silberschatz · 1988
• Unix System V Release 4AT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1990
• Internetworking with TCP/IPDouglas E. Comer, David L. Stevens · 1988
• Advanced programming in the Unix environmentW. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago · 1992

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