The focus of this paper is to review what is known about free and open source software
development (FOSSD) work practices, development processes, project and community …

The focus of this chapter is to review what is known about free and open source software
development (FOSSD) work practices, development processes, project and community …

The classic problem within the information quality (IQ) research and practice community has
been the problem of defining IQ. It has been found repeatedly that IQ is context sensitive and …

Software teams should follow a well defined goal and keep their work focused. Work
fragmentation is bad for efficiency and quality. In this paper we empirically investigate the …

In this paper, we examine the social roles of software tools in the English-language
Wikipedia, specifically focusing on autonomous editing programs and assisted editing tools …

A sketch combination system is introduced and tested: a crowd of 1047 participated in an
iterative process of design, evaluation and combination. Specifically, participants in a …

Context: the ability to follow other users and projects on GitHub has introduced a new layer
of open source software development participants who observe but do not contribute to …

This paper focuses on two characteristics of collaborative design with respect to cooperative
work: the importance of work interdependencies linked to the nature of design problems; …

Although OSS development is very popular, ultimately more than 80% of OSS projects fail.
Identifying the factors associated with OSS success can help in devising interventions when …

Purpose–A large variety of online communities have emerged during the last years as a
result of the challenges faced by both the business and scientific worlds. This trend has also …