TY - GEN
T1 - Relating and clustering free/libre open source software projects and developers
T2 - 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-44 2010
AU - Huang, Kuang Yuan
AU - Choi, Namjoo
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In this article a perspective of relating various Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects and linking different FLOSS developers is given. Specifically, by viewing projects and developers as characterized by their choices of features such as intended audiences, licenses, programming languages, operating systems, and topics, two-mode networks are generated to link projects (or developers) to their feature choices. Based on the generated networks, similarities among projects and among developers are calculated, and projects (or developers) are clustered through their measured similarities. Implication to this perspective can be the provision of project and developer recommendation services to extend developers' social networks beyond their participated projects and also to facilitate the sharing of information. This perspective also opens the possibility of discovering free software ideologists in FLOSS community.
AB - In this article a perspective of relating various Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects and linking different FLOSS developers is given. Specifically, by viewing projects and developers as characterized by their choices of features such as intended audiences, licenses, programming languages, operating systems, and topics, two-mode networks are generated to link projects (or developers) to their feature choices. Based on the generated networks, similarities among projects and among developers are calculated, and projects (or developers) are clustered through their measured similarities. Implication to this perspective can be the provision of project and developer recommendation services to extend developers' social networks beyond their participated projects and also to facilitate the sharing of information. This perspective also opens the possibility of discovering free software ideologists in FLOSS community.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79952910983
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79952910983#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2011.359
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2011.359
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952910983
SN - 9780769542829
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
BT - Proceedings of the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-44 2010
Y2 - 4 January 2011 through 7 January 2011
ER -