Crowdsourcing contests allow organisations to engage with an external workforce. Over the
years, the phenomenon has attracted considerable research interest. In the present review …

The emergence of team-assembly technologies has brought with it new challenges in
designing and implementing socio-technical systems. Our understanding of how systems …

It is undeniable that software development is a team-based activity. The quality of the
delivered product highly depends on the team configuration. However, selecting an …

The mobile app marketplace has fierce competition for mobile app developers, who need to
develop and update their apps as soon as possible to gain first mover advantage. Third …

Many open source projects provide good first issues (GFIs) to attract and retain newcomers.
Although several automated GFI recommenders have been proposed, existing …

Forming effective teams is an essential but challenging task, especially for organizations that
carry out multiple projects simultaneously, a problem known as the Multiple Team Formation …

Abstract Crowdsourcing Software Development (CSD) has emerged as a new software
development paradigm. Topcoder is now the largest competition-based CSD platform. Many …

Collaboration efficiency is of paramount importance for software development. Finding
suitable developers is critical and challenging due to the difficulty of capturing developers' …

Current research on teammate recommendation decision in various fields is difficult to apply
to knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing, which needs to make a trade-off between solver …

Previous research shows that teams with diverse backgrounds and skills can outperform
homogeneous teams. However, people often prefer to work with others who are similar and …