Measuring the effect of social communications on individual working rhythms: A case study of open source software

Proceedings of the 2012 ASE International Conference on Social Informatics, SocialInformatics 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 78-85

  Xuan, Qi ^a,b   Gharehyazie, Mohammad ^a   Devanbu, Premkumar T ^a   Filkov, Vladimir ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

committing rhythm; open source software; social network; time series; work and talk

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; OPEN SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COMMITTING RHYTHM; COMMUNICATION FREQUENCY; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS; WORK AND TALK;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84881049748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialInformatics.2012.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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