Why is stack overflow failing? Preserving sustainability in community question answering

IEEE Software

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 80-89

  Srba, Ivan ^a   Bielikova, Maria ^a  

^a SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

community question answering; computer supported cooperative work; knowledge sharing; question answering systems; software development; software engineering

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ADAPTIVE SUPPORT; COMMUNITY EVOLUTION; COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS; COMMUNITY QUESTION ANSWERING; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84977139292     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2016.34     Document Type: Article

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