Social network dynamics for open source software projects

Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 810-820

  Long, Yuan ^a   Siau, Keng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Longitudinal study; Open source software (OSS); Social network; Social structure

Indexed keywords

BUG TRACKING SYSTEM; INTERACTION PATTERN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NETWORK STRUCTURES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES; SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870024373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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