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Tie Strength in GitHub Heterogeneous Networks

Published: 16 October 2018 Publication History

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In social networks, the relationship between individuals is defined by many forms of interaction. Here, our goal is to measure the strength of the relationship between GitHub users by considering social and technical features. Thus, we model GitHub's heterogeneous collaboration network with different types of interaction and propose new metrics to the strength of relationships. The results show the new metrics are not correlated, bringing new information to the table. Finally, these metrics may become important tools to determine users' influence and popularity.

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WebMedia '18: Proceedings of the 24th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
October 2018
437 pages
ISBN:9781450358675
DOI:10.1145/3243082
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  1. Heterogeneous Social Networks
  2. Semantics
  3. Tie Strength

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  • FAPEMIG

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WebMedia '18
WebMedia '18: Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
October 16 - 19, 2018
BA, Salvador, Brazil

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  • (2022)How do developers collaborate? Investigating GitHub heterogeneous networksSoftware Quality Journal10.1007/s11219-022-09598-x31:1(211-241)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2022
  • (2020)Community detection in software ecosystem by comprehensively evaluating developer cooperation intensityInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106451(106451)Online publication date: Oct-2020

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