Negotiation and the coordination of information and activity in distributed software problem management

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 187-196

  Sandusky, Robert J ^a   Gasser, Les ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination mechanisms; Coordination theory; Distributed collective practices; Negotiation; Software problem management

Indexed keywords

BUG REPORTS; COMMUNITY RESOURCES; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; COORDINATION THEORY; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROBLEMS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 34547204613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099203.1099238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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