A comparison of evaluation networks and collaboration networks in open source software communities

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages 3484-3491

  Hu, Daning ^a   Leon Zhao, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Evaluation networks; Expert recommendation; Open source software; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DEGREE; AVERAGE PATH LENGTH; COLLABORATION NETWORK; COMMUNITY; DATA SETS; DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EXPERT RECOMMENDATIONS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; RAPID GROWTH; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84870267987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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