This study investigates a virtual project team’s development stages by way of a quantitative indicator. Until recently, only qualitative approach has been explored to deal with this issue, as can be seen in the past literatures. In this study we based on the concept of social network analysis to develop the quantitative indicator. The indicator can help us identify the development stages from t...

The networking ability of journals reflects their academic influence among peer journals. This paper analyzes the cited and citing environments of the journal---Advances in Atmospheric Sciences---using methods from social network analysis. The journal has been actively participating in the international journal environment, but one has a tendency to cite papers published in international journa...

Social Network Analysis (SNA) (Scott 1992) is the analysis of network data gathered in a social context. It has been used to examine social phenomena in such diverse areas as local communities, international organizations and sporting clubs. However, while the data collected by Social Network Analysts is eminently computable it has taken until relatively recently for SNA to make it’s way into t...

This work aims to analyse the wiki tool from OPAALS as a collaborative environment. To achieve that, methods from social network analysis and statistics are employed. The analysis is compared with other collaboration networks. The results obtained here show the evolution of the tool and that the adoption was successful.

As the world becomes more fluid, networked and complex, organisations will continue to be more mobile than ever before. A part of the challenge for future mobile organisations is on how can they better communicate and collaborate within their employees, customers and stakeholders. One technique that can help address this issue is social network analysis. Mobile organisations also need to develo...

The Social Semantic Web has begun to provide connections between users within social networks and the content they produce across the whole of the Social Web. Thus, the Social Semantic Web provides a basis to analyze both the communication behavior of users together with the content of their communication. However, there is little research combining the tools to study communication behaviour an...

Abstract This paper furthers inquiry into the social structure of free and open source software (FLOSS) teams by undertaking social network analysis across time. Contrary to expectations, we confirmed earlier findings of a wide distribution of centralizations even when examining the networks over time. The paper also provides empirical evidence that while change at the center of FLOSS projects ...

How can we understand FOSS collaboration better? Can social issues that emerge be identified and addressed before it is too late? Can the community heal itself, become more transparent and inclusive, and promote diversity? We propose a technique to address these issues by quantitative analysis of social dynamics in FOSS communities. We propose using social network analysis metrics to identify g...