Discovering determinants of project participation in an open source social network

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hu, Daning ^a,b   Zhao, J Leon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Determinant; Link prediction; Open source software; Participation; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DETERMINANT; LINK PREDICTION; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; PARTICIPATION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS METHODS; TECHNICAL FACTORS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 85069300921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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