Scientific software production: Incentives and collaboration

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 513-522

  Howison, James ^a   Herbsleb, James D ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION; INCENTIVE STRUCTURE; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; QUALITATIVE METHOD; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARES; STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY; WORK-FLOWS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79955149922     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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