A model for coopetition evolution of software industrial virtual cluster

Abstract

The application of complex network theory can clearly reveal the coopetition activities between inter-members in software industrial virtual cluster. The research result shows that neither simplex cooperation nor competition, but it is a kind of dynamic equilibrium of coopetition. The empirical is analyzed by using the example of cloud computing. In the process of coopetition evolution, the distribution functions of node strength are from random to power law and eventually to random.