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Complex networks emerge under different conditions through simple rules of growth and evolution. Such rules are typically local when dealing with biological systems and most social webs. An important deviation from such scenario is provided…

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Invisible labor is an intrinsic part of the modern workplace, and includes labor that is undervalued or unrecognized such as creating collaborative atmospheres. Open source software (OSS) is software that is viewable, editable and shareable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Robin A. Lange , Anna Gibson , Milo Z. Trujillo , Brooke Foucault Welles

Due to the increasing number of attacks targeting open source library ecosystems, assisting maintainers has become a top priority. This is especially important since maintainers are usually overworked. Although the motivation of Open Source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Christoph Treude , Kenichi Matsumoto

Open source software (OSS) forms the backbone of industrial data workflows and enterprise systems. However, many OSS projects face operational risks due to informal or centralized governance. This paper presents a practical case study of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pedro Oliveira , Doris Amoakohene , Toby Hocking , Marco Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

The pull-based development model facilitates global collaboration within open-source software projects. However, whereas it is increasingly common for software to depend on other projects in their ecosystem, most research on the pull…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Willem Meijer , Mirela Riveni , Ayushi Rastogi

The fact that the number of users of open source software (OSS) is practically un-limited and that ultimately the software quality is determined by end users experience, makes the usability an even more critical quality attribute than it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Arif Raza , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Context: Open Source Software (OSS) is a crucial component of over 90\% of digital infrastructure underpinning industry and public digital services, facilitating collaborative software development and dissemination. Its significance in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Johan Linåker , Astor Nummelin Carlberg , Ciaran O'Riordan

With the increasing popularity of machine learning (ML), many open-source software (OSS) contributors are attracted to developing and adopting ML approaches. Comprehensive understanding of ML contributors is crucial for successful ML OSS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jiawen Liu , Haoxiang Zhang , Ying Zou

The use of third-party packages is becoming increasingly popular and has led to the emergence of large software package ecosystems with a maze of inter-dependencies. Since the reliance on these ecosystems enables developers to reduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Raula Gaikovina Kula , Katsuro Inoue , Christoph Treude

We study collaboration patterns of Wikidata, one of the world's largest open source collaborative knowledge graph (KG) communities. Collaborative KG communities, play a key role in structuring machine-readable knowledge to support AI…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Elisavet Koutsiana , Ioannis Reklos , Kholoud Saad Alghamdi , Nitisha Jain , Albert Meroño-Peñuela , Elena Simperl

Encompassing a diverse population of developers, non-technical users, and other stakeholders, open source software (OSS) development has expanded to broader social movements from the initial product development aims. Ideology, as a coherent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yang Yue , Yi Wang , David Redmiles

Cross-community collaboration can exploit the expertise and knowledges of crowds in different communities. Recently increasing users in open source software (OSS) community like GitHub attempt to gather software requirements from question…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Hao Huang , Yao Lu , Xinjun Mao

OpenStreetMap (OSM) has transitioned from a pioneering volunteered geographic information (VGI) project into a global, multi-disciplinary research nexus. This study presents a bibliometric and systematic analysis of the OSM research…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yao Sun , Liqiu Meng , Andres Camero , Stefan Auer , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Modern software systems rely on dependency networks of reusable libraries, where breaking changes propagate and cause downstream consumers to fail. Despite growing research across ecosystems, no comprehensive synthesis exists. We conduct a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Juntao Chen , Tingting Bi , Yanlin Wang , Patanamon Thongtanunam

Creating a successful and sustainable Open Source Software (OSS) project often depends on the strength and the health of the community behind it. Current literature explains the contributors' lifecycle, starting with the motivations that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Giuseppe Iaffaldano , Igor Steinmacher , Fabio Calefato , Marco Gerosa , Filippo Lanubile

The availability of vast amounts of publicly accessible data of source code and the advances in modern language models, coupled with increasing computational resources, have led to a remarkable surge in the development of large language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhou Yang , Jieke Shi , Premkumar Devanbu , David Lo

Previous work established that open source software (OSS) projects can benefit from the involvement of UX professionals, who offer user-centric perspectives and contributions to improve software usability. However, their participation in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Arghavan Sanei , Jinghui Cheng

One of the biggest strength of many modern programming languages is their rich open source package ecosystem. Indeed, modern language-specific package managers have made it much easier to share reusable code and depend on components written…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Théo Zimmermann

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

Open source software (OSS) often prioritizes technical functionality over usability and UX design. This imbalance limits OSS adoption among broader, non-technical users. Key underlying factors contributing to this issue are the shortage of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Rozhan Hozhabri Nezhad , Jin L. C. Guo , Jinghui Cheng