Core and periphery in Free/Libre and Open Source software team communications

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Wei, Kangning ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Howison, James ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRADFORD'S LAW ANALYSIS; CORE-AND-PERIPHERY STRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES;

DATA REDUCTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33749645108     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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