Stigmergic coordination in FLOSS development teams: Integrating explicit and implicit mechanisms

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 14-22

  Bolici, Francesco ^a   Howison, James ^b   Crowston, Kevin ^c  

^a Department of Economics and Law   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination mechanisms; Distributed teams; FLOSS teams; Stigmergic coordination

Indexed keywords

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COORDINATION FRAMEWORKS; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS; FLOSS TEAMS; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; STIGMERGIC COORDINATION; TEAM-BASED PROJECTS;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CODEBASE; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXPLICIT COORDINATION MECHANISM; GOAL DECOMPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; IMPLICIT COORDINATION MECHANISM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIGMERGIC COORDINATION; TEAMWORK; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84958107516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2015.12.003     Document Type: Article

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