Effective knowledge exchange among software developers is crucial for the competitive
performance of their organizations. Today, the constant pressure on businesses to …

The term 'crowdsourcing'was initially introduced in 2006 to describe an emerging distributed
problem-solving model by online workers. Since then it has been widely studied and …

Social applications on the web let users track and follow the activities of a large number of
others regardless of location or affiliation. There is a potential for this transparency to …

In this paper we describe a qualitative investigation of impression formation in an online
distributed software development community with social media functionality. We find that …

Nowadays, software engineers use a variety of online media to search and become
informed of new and interesting technologies, and to learn from and help one another. We …

Stack Overflow is a popular on-line question and answer site for software developers to
share their experience and expertise. Among the numerous questions posted in Stack …

Open source projects leverage a large number of people to review products and improve
code quality. Differences among participants are inevitable and important to this …

Social networking tools now allow professionals to post and share their work in online
spaces. These professionals build reputation within a community of practice, often with the …

Creating documentation is a challenging task in software engineering and most techniques
involve the laborious and sometimes tedious job of writing text. This paper explores an …

As today's organizations are capturing exponentially larger amounts of data than ever, now
is the time for organizations to rethink how they digest that data. Through advanced …