Studying the topology of a network is critical to inferring underlying dynamics such as
tolerance to failure, group behavior and spreading patterns. k-core decomposition is a well …

Developer social networks (DSNs) are a tool for the analysis of community structures and
collaborations between developers in software projects and software ecosystems. Within …

In a team formation problem, one is required to find a group of users that can match the
requirements of a collaborative task. Example of such collaborative tasks abound, ranging …

Socio-technical congruence is an approach that measures coordination by examining the
alignment between the technical dependencies and the social coordination in the project …

Efficient bug triaging procedures are an important precondition for successful collaborative
software engineering projects. Triaging bugs can become a laborious task particularly in …

Crowdsourcing has become a popular service computing paradigm for requesters to
integrate the ubiquitous human-intelligence services for tasks that are difficult for computers …

Complex software development projects rely on the contribution of teams of developers, who
are required to collaborate and coordinate their efforts. The productivity of such development …

With the increasing complexity of tasks that are crowdsourced, requesters need to form
teams of professional workers that can satisfy complex task skill requirements. Team …

Context Prior research has established that a small proportion of individuals dominate team
communication during global software development. It is not known, however, how these …

Context Prior research has established that a few individuals generally dominate project
communication and source code changes during software development. Moreover, this …