Validity of network analyses in open source projects

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 201-209

  Nia, Roozbeh ^a   Bird, Christian ^a   Devanbu, Premkumar ^a   Filkov, Vladimir ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Information flow; Open source; Social networks

Indexed keywords

E-MAIL ARCHIVES; INFORMATION FLOWS; MISSING DATA; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NETWORK METRICS; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TEMPORAL ORDER;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRONIC MAIL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953765626     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2010.5463342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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