Techniques for identifying the country origin of mailing list participants

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 36-40

  Tang, Ran ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Zou, Ying ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Global software development; Mining software repositories

Indexed keywords

DESIGN DECISIONS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; IMPLEMENTATION STRUCTURE; MAILING LISTS; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; POSTGRESQL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TIME ZONES;

REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 73449113662     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2009.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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