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ICSM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A statistical examination of the evolution and properties of libre software
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Israel Herraiz
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On the prediction of the evolution of libre software projects
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
Israel Herraiz, Jesús M. González-Ba...
HT
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Statistical properties of inter-arrival times distribution in social tagging systems
Folksonomies provide a rich source of data to study social patterns taking place on the World Wide Web. Here we study the temporal patterns of users’ tagging activity. We show t...
Andrea Capocci, Andrea Baldassarri, Vito Domenico ...
WEBDB
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Spam, Damn Spam, and Statistics: Using Statistical Analysis to Locate Spam Web Pages
The increasing importance of search engines to commercial web sites has given rise to a phenomenon we call “web spam”, that is, web pages that exist only to mislead search eng...
Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, Marc Najork
ISPW
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Feedback, evolution and software technology
A 1968 study of the software process led, inter alia, to the observation that the software process constitutes a feedback system. Attempts at its management and improvement must t...
M. M. Lehman