Who to follow recommendation in large-scale online development communities

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1543-1555

  Schall, Daniel ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

GitHub; Knowledge management; Online communities; Social resilience; Software development; Who to follow recommendation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

GITHUB; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITIES; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; POTENTIAL COLLABORATORS; RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL RESILIENCE; WHO-TO-FOLLOW RECOMMENDATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84906314883     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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