Correlating temporal communication patterns of the Eclipse open source community with performance and creativity

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-27

  Kidane, Yared H ^a   Gloor, Peter A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Eclipse; Opensource; Performance; TeCFlow; Temporal social network analysis; Temporal social surface; Virtual community

Indexed keywords

CREATIVITY; ECLIPSE; OPEN-SOURCE; PERFORMANCE; TECFLOW; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

PRODUCTIVITY; TOOLS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 33751003796     PISSN: 1381298X     EISSN: 15729346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10588-006-9006-3     Document Type: Article

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