We propose a novel method, based on concepts from expander graphs, to sample communities in networks. We show that our sampling method, unlike previous techniques, produces subgra...
How do licenses participate in Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) community life? This paper aims at answering this question. Despite the dynamic character of FLOSS development...
Stefano De Paoli, Maurizio Teli, Vincenzo D'Andrea
In this paper, given a set of research papers with only title and author information, a mining strategy is proposed to discover and organize the communities of authors according to...
Online communities need regular maintenance activities such as moderation and data input, tasks that typically fall to community owners. Communities that allow all members to part...
Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Sara B. Kiesler, Loren...
The Web 2.0 fosters the creation of communities by offering users a wide array of social software tools. While the success of these tools is based on their ability to support diff...
Angelo Di Iorio, Davide Rossi, Fabio Vitali, Stefa...