Papers
“Stigmergic coordination in FLOSS development teams: Integrating explicit and implicit mechanisms”, Cognitive Systems Research, 2015.
COGSYS-RS-(HHS)-(2015)-(3).pdf (218.8 KB)
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“COLLABORATION THROUGH OPEN SUPERPOSITION: A THEORY OF THE OPEN SOURCE WAY.”, MIS Quarterly, vol. 38, pp. 29 - A9, 2014.
, “Free/Libre Open Source Software: What We Know and What We Do Not Know”, ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 44, 2012.
floss_review_paper.pdf (593.09 KB)
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“FLOSS Project Effectiveness Measures”, in Successful OSS Project Design and Implementation, Gower, 2011, pp. 149-168.
, “Validity Issues in the Use of Social Network Analysis with Digital Trace data”, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, vol. 12, no. 12, 2011.
HowisonSNADigitalTraceData-WorkingPaper.pdf (1.35 MB)
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“Analyzing Leadership Dynamics in Distributed Group Communication”, in 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2010), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2010, pp. 1 - 10.
07-06-02.pdf (478.73 KB)
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“Paying attention to each other in visible work communities: Modeling bursty systems of multiple activity streams”, in SocialCom/PASSAT(2010), 2010, pp. 276-281.
olson2010paying-attentio.pdf (691.9 KB)
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“Heartbeat: Measuring Active User Base and Potential User Interest in FLOSS Projects”, in OSS2009: Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting (IFIP 2.13), 2009, vol. 299/2009, pp. 94 - 104.
Heatbeat Measuring Active Use (1.93 MB)
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“Cross-repository data linking with RDF and OWL”, in 3rd Workshop on Public Data about Software Development (WoPDaSD 2008), 2008, pp. 15-22.
howison2008.pdf (608.81 KB)
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“eResearch Workflows for Studying Free and Open Source Software Development”, in OSS2008: Open Source Development, Communities and Quality (IFIP 2.13), 2008, vol. 275, pp. 405–411.
, “eResearch Workflows for Studying Free and Open Source Software Development”, in OSS2008: Open Source Development, Communities and Quality (IFIP 2.13), 2008, vol. 275/2008, pp. 405 - 411.
eResearch Workflows (639.93 KB)
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“Social Dynamics of FLOSS Team Communication Across Channels”, in OSS2008: Open Source Development, Communities and Quality (IFIP 2.13), 2008, vol. 275/2008, pp. 131 - 142.
Social Dynamics of Floss (550.4 KB)
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“Emergent Decision-Making Practices in Free/Libre Open Source Software (Floss) Development Teams”, in OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13), 2007, vol. 234/2007, pp. 71 - 84.
Emergent Decision-Making (232.58 KB)
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“Self-organization of teams for free/libre open source software development”, Information and Software Technology Journal, vol. 49, 2007.
task_assignment_final.pdf (252.56 KB)
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“Core and periphery in Free/Libre and Open Source software team communications”, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 06, 2006.
, “Hierarchy and centralization in Free and Open Source Software team communications”, Knowledge, Technology & Policy, vol. 18, pp. 65–85, 2006.
CrowstonHierarchyAndCentralization.pdf (566.38 KB)
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“Information systems success in Free and Open Source Software development: Theory and measures”, Software Process–Improvement and Practice, vol. 11, pp. 123–148, 2006.
CrowstonHowisonAnnabi2006.pdf (1.1 MB)
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“Social dynamics of free and open source team communications”, in OSS2006: Open Source Systems (IFIP 2.13), 2006, vol. 203/2006, pp. 319 - 330.
Social dynamics of free and open source team (644.71 KB)
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“Coordination of Free/Libre Open Source Software development”, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2005). Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2005.
CrowstonWeiLiEseryelHowison.pdf (115.49 KB)
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“OSSmole: A collaborative repository for FLOSS research data and analyses”, in OSS2005: Open Source Systems , 2005, pp. 54-60.
, “Unreliable Collaborators: Coordination in distributed volunteer teams”, in OSS2005: Open Source Systems , 2005, pp. 305-306.
, “The perils and pitfalls of mining SourceForge”, Proc. of Workshop on Mining Software Repositories at the International Conference on Software Engineering. pp. 7-11, 2004.
howison04msr.pdf (64.33 KB)
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“Towards a Portfolio of FLOSS project Success Measures”, in Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, International Conference on Software Engineering, 2004.
crowston04towards.pdf (306.18 KB)
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