Social coding is an approach of software development that enables cooperation among developers. Specially, GitHub can be modeled as a social coding network and its study allows the discovery of relevant patterns, e.g., the collaborations strength. Finding such patterns may help to improve the recommendation of developers and the evaluation of team formation. Here, our goal is to analyze the cor...

social commerce, a new stream in e-commerce, enables hyper-informed consumers to support the businesses in new product development. hyper-informed consumers are the results of online communication provided by social media. these consumers have been empowered by web 2.0 technologies to have online communication, which drives value for the companies in new product development. trust is one the va...

A Social Development Environment is a real-time collaborative programming tool with integrated social networking features. This emerging technology is important for distributed software developers, e-learning and technical communities. Social Development Environments advance the state of the art for collaboration, coordination, and project management in software development. Social Development ...

It is found for the last two decades that there has been a rapid rise of PPPs across the world. A government in developing countries like India is using PPP arrangements for improved delivery of infrastructure services and social services. Public Private Partnerships which are an integral part of the new paradigm of good governance policy is the most recent addition in the world of society and ...

children's development is shaped based on a combination of environmental, organism, physiological and genetic factors. recent researches on the development of children and toddlers convincingly show that the best growth level happens in a motivating environment and a powerful support. this study aimed at evaluating the effect of an environment affordance intervention on social development ...

Plan-driven, agile or free/open source software are models that have been suggested as alternatives for software development processes. Although effective to some extent, they alone cannot fully address all the variability of projects and organizations. In this work, it is argued that two distinct characteristics of these models – collaboration and discipline – can be the drivers to tailor soft...

The purpose of this study was to compare the participation in physical activity and computer games on the social development of students. The population of this research was made up entirely of male students from secondary schools in the city of Marivan (mean age of 13.5 years). Among them, 300 were selected purposively (150 athletes, 150 computer games players). In order to collect the informa...

today, development of social entrepreneurship has been regarded as a social and altruistic mission and as a solution to some social problems and damages. entrepreneurship has exerted positive and direct impact on the activities of many different countries. on one hand, it leads to economic development and creation of vocational opportunities; and on the other hand, it causes to improve social a...