Temporal Aspects for Measuring Collaboration Strength on GitHub

• Natércia A. Batista Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Michele A. Brandão Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Ana Paula C. da Silva Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Mirella M. Moro Federal University of Minas Gerais https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0545-2001

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbbd.2017.174084

Abstract

Time is fundamental to understand interactions between individuals in a social network. Here, we consider the temporal aspect to measure the collaboration strength between GitHub developers. The results show the temporal aspect enables to build a more realistic collaboration graph.

Keywords: Graph, Strength of Collaboration

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