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The software ecosystem is a trust-rich part of the world. Collaboratively, software engineers trust major hubs in the ecosystem, such as package managers, repository services, and programming language ecosystems. This trust, however, is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Floris Jansen , Slinger Jansen , Fang Hou

The development of Open-Source Software (OSS) is not only a technical challenge, but also a social one due to the diverse mixture of contributors. To this aim, social-coding platforms, such as GitHub, provide the infrastructure needed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Sergio Cobos , Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo

Open-source software is widely used in commercial applications. Pair that with the fact that when choosing open-source software for a new problem, developers often use social proof as a cue. These two facts raise concerns that bad actors…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Lucas Shen , Gaurav Sood

In recent years the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent in a growing number of fields. As AI systems are being adopted in more high-stakes areas such as medicine and finance, ensuring that they are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Tobias M. Peters , Roel W. Visser

According to different opponents and commercial giants in software industries, the open source style software development has enough capacity to complete successfully the large scale projects. But we have seen many flaws and loops in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Murtaza Hussain Shaikh

This paper provides a general overview of different perspectives and studies on trust, offers a definition of trust, and provides factors that play a substantial role in developing social trust, and shows from which perspectives it can be…

General Economics · Economics 2021-06-28 Nazli Mohammad , Yvonne Stedham

Defining and measuring trust in dynamic, multiagent teams is important in a range of contexts, particularly in defense and security domains. Team members should be trusted to work towards agreed goals and in accordance with shared values.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Edmund R. Hunt , Chris Baber , Mehdi Sobhani , Sanja Milivojevic , Sagir Yusuf , Mirco Musolesi , Patrick Waterson , Sally Maynard

In recent years, concerns have increased over the lack of contributor diversity in open source software (OSS), despite its status as a paragon of open collaboration. OSS is an important form of digital infrastructure and part of a career…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Hana Frluckaj , James Howison , Laura Dabbish , Nikki Stevens

Modern communication platforms such as Gitter and Slack play an increasingly critical role in supporting software teamwork, especially in open source development.Conversations on such platforms often contain intensive, valuable information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Lin Shi , Xiao Chen , Ye Yang , Hanzhi Jiang , Ziyou Jiang , Nan Niu , Qing Wang

Software systems rely heavily on open source software (OSS) libraries, which offer benefits but also pose risks. When vulnerabilities arise, the OSS community may struggle to address them due to inactivity or lack of resources. Research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Alexandros Tsakpinis , Alexander Pretschner

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

A social approach can be exploited for the Internet of Things (IoT) to manage a large number of connected objects. These objects operate as autonomous agents to request and provide information and services to users. Establishing trustworthy…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Zhiting Lin , Liang Dong

The paper begins by exploring the rationality of ethical trust as a foundational concept. This involves distinguishing between trust and trustworthiness and delving into scenarios where trust is both rational and moral. It lays the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Abbas Tariverdi

An agile approach has become very popular over the last decade, which requires good communication and teamwork within teams as well as with outside stakeholders. Therefore, social interaction is central for a software development team to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Andreas Bäckevik , Erik Tholén , Lucas Gren

The purpose of this protocol is to be useful to identify, evaluate and synthesize reported knowledge about the measurement of interpersonal trust (IpT) in virtual software teams. To achieve this goal we applied a research technique known as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Sergio Zapata , José Luis Barros-Justo , Gerardo Maturro , Samuel Sepúlveda

[Background] In large open-source software projects, development knowledge is often fragmented across multiple artefacts and contributors such that individual stakeholders are generally unaware of the full breadth of the product features.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tim Puhlfürß , Lloyd Montgomery , Walid Maalej

With the current progress of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and its increasingly broader applications, trust is seen as a required criterion for AI usage, acceptance, and deployment. A robust measurement instrument is essential to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Retno Larasati

Usability is an increasing concern in open source software (OSS). Given the recent changes in the OSS landscape, it is imperative to examine the OSS contributors' current valued factors, practices, and challenges concerning usability. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Wenting Wang , Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or satisfaction with an open source project. However, the real…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Hudson Borges , Marco Tulio Valente

Software quality assurance has been a heated topic for several decades, but relatively few analyses were performed on open source software (OSS). As OSS has become very popular in our daily life, many researchers have been keen on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Jie Xu , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Danny Ho