Analyzing the social ties and structure of contributors in Open Source Software community

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 56-60

  Allaho, Mohammad Y ^a   Lee, Wang Chien ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PRODUCTIVITY;

CONNECTIVITY STRUCTURES; DEGREE DISTRIBUTIONS; GENERAL STRUCTURES; HIGH-DEGREE NODES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY; POWER-LAW DEGREE DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893239219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2492517.2492627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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