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Efficient bug triaging procedures are an important precondition for successful collaborative software engineering projects. Triaging bugs can become a laborious task particularly in open source software (OSS) projects with a large base of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Marcelo Serrano Zanetti , Ingo Scholtes , Claudio Juan Tessone , Frank Schweitzer

Communities are not static; they evolve, split and merge, appear and disappear, i.e. they are product of dynamical processes that govern the evolution of the network. A good algorithm for community detection should not only quantify the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-24 Angel Stanoev , Daniel Smilkov , Ljupco Kocarev

Open-source software (OSS) is a critical part of the software supply chain. Recent social engineering attacks against OSS development teams have enabled attackers to become code contributors and later inject malicious code or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Luiz Giovanini , Daniela Oliveira , Huascar Sanchez , Deborah Shands

Community structure in networks has been investigated from many viewpoints, usually with the same end result: a community detection algorithm of some kind. Recent research offers methods for combining the results of such algorithms into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-01-10 James P. Ferry , J. Oren Bumgarner

We study the structural properties of large scale collaboration in online communities of innovation and the role that position in the community plays in determining knowledge contribution. Contrary to previous research, we argue for a more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Hani Safadi , Samer Faraj

While many forms of financial support are currently available, there are still many complaints about inadequate financing from software maintainers. In May 2019, GitHub, the world's most active social coding platform, launched the Sponsor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Xunhui Zhang , Tao Wang , Yue Yu , Qiubing Zeng , Zhixing Li , Huaimin Wang

Open-source software communities thrive on global collaboration and contributions from diverse participants. This study explores the Rust programming language ecosystem to understand its contributors' demographic composition and interaction…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rohit Dandamudi , Ifeoma Adaji , Gema Rodríguez-Pérez

A community within a network is a group of vertices densely connected to each other but less connected to the vertices outside. The problem of detecting communities in large networks plays a key role in a wide range of research areas, e.g.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

The last decade has witnessed the rapid growth of open source software (OSS). Still, all contributors may find it difficult to assimilate into OSS community even they are enthusiastic to make contributions. We thus suggest that partner…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Yunyi Xie , Jinyin Chen , Jian Zhang , Xincheng Shu , Qi Xuan

Despite the widespread adoption of open source software (OSS), its sustainability remains a critical concern, particularly in light of security vulnerabilities and the often inadequate end-of-service (EoS) processes for OSS projects as they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Tapajit Dey , Brian Fitzgerald , Sherae Daniel

We introduce a novel algorithm of community detection that maintains dynamically a community structure of a large network that evolves with time. The algorithm maximizes the modularity index thanks to the construction of a randomized…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Yves Darmaillac , Sébastien Loustau

Open Source Software (OSS) development challenges traditional software engineering practices. In particular, OSS projects are managed by a large number of volunteers, working freely on the tasks they choose to undertake. OSS projects also…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Warren Sack , Françoise Détienne , Nicholas Ducheneaut , Jean-Marie Burkhardt , Dilan Mahendran , Flore Barcellini

The global energy transition towards distributed, smaller-scale resources, such as decentralized generation and flexible assets like storage and shiftable loads, demands novel control structures aligned with the emerging network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Philipp Danner , Hermann de Meer

Gender diversity in open source software development continues to be a topic of growing interest among researchers, practitioners, and organizations. To date, research has revealed disparities in participation between developers on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Olivia B. Newton , Jihye Song

Open source software (OSS) projects rely on complex networks of contributors whose interactions drive innovation and sustainability. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of OSS contributor networks using advanced graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 S M Rakib Ul Karim , Wenyi Lu , Sean Goggins

GitHub Sponsors, launched in 2019, enables donations to individual open source software (OSS) developers. Financial support for OSS maintainers and developers is a major issue in terms of sustaining OSS projects, and the ability to donate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Naomichi Shimada , Tao Xiao , Hideaki Hata , Christoph Treude , Kenichi Matsumoto

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, addressing security vulnerabilities in open-source software (OSS) has become critically important. However, existing research and tools from both academia and industry mainly relied…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lyuye Zhang , Jiahui Wu , Chengwei Liu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaoyu Sun , Lida Zhao , Chong Wang , Yang Liu

The open source development model has become a paradigm shift from traditional in-house/closed-source software development model, with many successes. Traditionally, open source projects were characterized essentially by their individual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Qingye Jiang , Young Choon Lee , Joseph G. Davis , Ablert Y. Zomaya

Social organization and division of labor crucially influence the performance of collaborative software engineering efforts. In this paper, we provide a quantitative analysis of the relation between social organization and performance in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Marcelo Serrano Zanetti , Ingo Scholtes , Claudio Juan Tessone , Frank Schweitzer

Background: Understanding the condition of OSS projects is important to analyze features and predict the future of projects. In the field of demography and economics, health and wealth are considered to understand the condition of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Saya Onoue , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Hideaki Hata , Kenichi Matsumoto