Virtual teams (ie, geographically distributed collaborations that rely on technology to
communicate and cooperate) are central to maintaining our increasingly globalized social …

Context Systematic mapping studies are used to structure a research area, while systematic
reviews are focused on gathering and synthesizing evidence. The most recent guidelines for …

Newcomers' seamless onboarding is important for online communities that depend upon
leveraging the contribution of outsiders. Previous studies investigated aspects of the joining …

Throughout the history of software engineering, the human aspects have repeatedly been
recognized as important. Even though research that investigates them has been growing in …

Presently, global software development (GSD) is growing very rapidly. However, it is not an
easy and straightforward process. Requirements engineering (RE) and requirements …

Software bots are used to streamline tasks in Open Source Software (OSS) projects' pull
requests, saving development cost, time, and effort. However, their presence can be …

Context: Many researchers have argued that providing interoperability support only
considering the format and meaning (ie syntax and semantic) of data exchange is not …

Today, many companies allow their employees to work from anywhere, which has changed
how employees coordinate their work and align toward the same goals. Objectives and Key …

Purpose Our objective was to identify and examine studies of collaboration in relation to the
use of health information technologies (HIT) in the biomedical informatics field. Methods We …

Software developers who want to start contributing to an Open Source Software (OSS)
project often struggle to find appropriate first tasks. The voluntary, self-organizing distribution …