MEMBERSHIP DYNAMICS AND NETWORK STABILITY IN THE OPEN-SOURCE COMMUNITY: THE ISING PERSPECTIVE

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 413-426

  Oh, Wonseok ^a   Jeon, Sangyong ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ising theory; membership herding; Open source

Indexed keywords

OPEN SYSTEMS;

DYNAMICS STABILITY; EXTERNAL FORCE; ISING THEORY; LARGER NETWORKS; MEMBERSHIP DECISION; MEMBERSHIP HERDING; NETWORK STABILITY; OPEN-SOURCE; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; SCALE-FREE;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84893270755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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