A multivariate classification of open source developers

Information Sciences

Volumn 221, Issue , 2013, Pages 72-83

  Di Bella, Enrico ^a   Sillitti, Alberto ^b   Succi, Giancarlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Development process; Empirical studies; Open source; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MULTIVARIATE CLASSIFICATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCES; SOFTWARE METRICS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84868697929     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.09.031     Document Type: Article

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