The Open Source Software Community Structure
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چکیده
Social network properties are applied in many research areas to help people discover the intrinsic mechanism of a social organization. The social network analysis has recently been used to study the OSS development community [Xu et al. 2004, Xu1 et al. 2003, Xu2 et al. 2003, Madey et al. 2004, Lopez et al. 2004]. In this paper, we identify the community structure for the SourceForge project network. Furthermore, we examine software categories to explore possible reasons for the formation of the community structure. Our research provides useful information to study the interaction between projects and the communication and information flow in OSS virtual community. Contact: Jin Xu Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN46556 Tel: 1-574-631-7596 Fax: 1-574-631-9260 Email: [email protected]
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