[Air-l] Re: SNA & OSS

[mboudour at upatras.gr]

Hello all,

Thanks to everybody who has responded. Special thanks to Lada Adamic, 
Mariano Belinky, Irene Berkowitz, Ron Burt, Kathleen Carley, Roberto 
Dandi, Danyel Fisher, Jon Froehlich, James Howison and Robin Teigland.

The list below includes only works making use or referring to social 
network analysis.

--Moses

  M.A. Boudourides
  Associate Professor
 
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Patras
  265 00 Rio-Patras
  Greece

  Tel.: +30-2610-996318
  Fax:  +30-2610-996318, +30-2610-992965 

  http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour

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Works on F/OSS and Social Network Analysis


Crowston, K., & Howison, J. (2003). The social structure of Open Source 
Software development teams. Submitted for presentation at the "2003 
International Conference on Information Systems." 
http://crowston.syr.edu/papers/icis2003sna.pdf 

Ducheneaut, N. (n.d.). The reproduction of open source software 
communities. Ph.D. work at Berkeley. 
http://www2.parc.com/csl/members/nicolas/open-source.html 

Gao, Y. (2003). Topology and evolution of the Open Source Software 
community. MS Thesis. University of Notre Dame. 
http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/ygaoThesisFinal_12-2-03.pdf

Gao, Y., Madey, G., & Freeh, V. (2003). Modeling and simulation of a 
complex social system: A case study. 
http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/SimulationSym37_gao.pdf
 
Kuwabara, K. (2000). Linux: A bazaar at the edge of chaos. First Monday, 
vol. 5, no. 3 (March 2000). 
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_3/kuwabara/index.html 

Lopez-Fernandez, L., Robles-Martinez, G., & Gonzalez-Barahona, J.M. 
(2004). Applying social network analysis to the information in CVS 
repositories. 
http://libresoft.dat.escet.urjc.es/html/downloads/sna-icse-2004.pdf 
http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/slides/LopezFernandez.pdf 

Madey, G., Freeh, V., & Tynan, R. (2004). Modeling the F/OSS Community: A 
quantitative investigation. In S. Koch (ed.), Free/Open Source Software 
Development. Idea Publishing. 
http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/BookChapter.pdf 

Meyer, P.B. (2003). Episodes of collective invention. Working Paper 368. 
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/meyer.pdf

Mockus, A., Fielding, R.T., & Herbsleb, J.D. (n.d.). Two case studies of 
Open Source Software development: Apache and Mozilla. 
http://www.research.avayalabs.com/techreport/ALR-2002-003-paper.pdf 

Myers, C.R. (2003). Software systems as complex networks: Structure, 
function, and evolvability of software collaboration graphs. 
Cond-mat/0305575. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305575 

O’Mahony, S., & Ferraro, F. (2003). Managing the boundary of an ‘open’ 
project. Prepared for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Workshop on .The 
Network Construction of Markets.. 
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/omahonyferraro.pdf

te Meerman, S. (2003). Puzzling with a top-down blueprint and a bottom-up 
network: An explorative analysis of the Open Source world using ITIL and 
Social Network Analysis. MS Thesis, University of Groningen, the 
Netherlands. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/meerman2.pdf

Waguespack, D.M., & Fleming, L. (2004). Penguins, camels, and other birds 
of a feather: The emergence of leaders in open innovation communities. 
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/elf/ECON222/Waguespack%20Fleming.pdf

Wasko, M.M., & Teigland, R. (2002). The provision of online public goods: 
Examining social structure in an electronic network of practice. 23rd 
International Conference on Information Systems. 
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~aschwarz/workshop/abstracts/teiglanda.htm 

Xu, J., & Madey, G. (2004). Exploration of the Open Source Software 
community. NAACSOS Conference 2004. 
http://casos.isri.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2004_proceedings/XuJin1.pdf