Software patterns are a new design paradigm used to solve problems that arise when developing software within a particular context. Patterns capture the static and dynamic structu...
Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook thrive on energetic social interaction, but the factors that assure this are not well understood. There is a lack of theory th...
Catherine Dwyer, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, George Widme...
Our approach to better understand the nature of collaboration in open-source software (OSS) development is to view it as a participative system, where people and artifacts are int...
The comprehensive understanding of today’s software systems is a daunting activity, because of the sheer size and complexity that such systems exhibit. Moreover, software system...
Software-intensive systems evolve continuously under the pressure of new and changing requirements, generally leading to an increase in overall system complexity. In this respect,...