Mining task-based social networks to explore collaboration in software teams

IEEE Software

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-66

  Wolf, Timo ^a   Schröter, Adrian ^a   Damian, Daniela ^a   Panjer, Lucas D ^a   Nguyen, Thanh H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaboration; computer supported collaborative work; Data mining; Filtering; Graphical user interfaces; Organizational impacts; Presses; Social network services; Software; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA MINING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MINING; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

COLLABORATION; FILTERING; ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACTS; PRESSES; SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES; SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 58149494649     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2009.16     Document Type: Article

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