Context: While industrial use of UML was studied intensely, little is known about UML use in
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. Goal: We aim at systematically mining GitHub …

Online communities are flourishing as social meeting web-spaces for users and peer
community members. Different online communities require different levels of competence for …

Online communities are flourishing as social meeting web spaces for users and peer
community members. Different online communities require different levels of competence for …

Software development projects, in particular open source ones, heavily rely on the use of
tools to support, coordinate and promote development activities. Despite their paramount …

Most empirical studies of open source software repositories focus on the analysis of isolated
projects, or restrict themselves to the study of the relationships between technical artifacts. In …

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is widely taught in academia and has good
acceptance in industry. However, there is not an ample dataset of UML diagrams publicly …

Software evolution relates to how software systems evolve over time. With the emergence of
the open source paradigm, researchers are provided with a wealth of data for open source …

The paper is a meta-analysis of the research field of software ecosystems, by method of
surveying 26 authors in the field. It presents a relevant list of literature and six themes in …

Sequences of relational events underlie much empirical research on organizational
relations. Yet relational event data are typically aggregated and dichotomized to derive …

A recent line of inquiry investigates new forms of organizing as bundles of novel solutions to
universal problems of resource allocation and coordination: how to allocate organizational …