Hello all, Thanks to everybody who has responded. Special thanks to Lada Adamic, Mariano Belinky, Irene Berkowitz, Ron Burt, Kathleen Carley, Roberto Dandi, Danyel Fisher, Jon Froehlich, James Howison and Robin Teigland. The list below includes only works making use or referring to social network analysis. --Moses M.A. Boudourides Associate Professor Department of Mathematics University of Patras 265 00 Rio-Patras Greece Tel.: +30-2610-996318 Fax: +30-2610-996318, +30-2610-992965 http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour **************************************************************************** Works on F/OSS and Social Network Analysis Crowston, K., & Howison, J. (2003). The social structure of Open Source Software development teams. Submitted for presentation at the "2003 International Conference on Information Systems." http://crowston.syr.edu/papers/icis2003sna.pdf Ducheneaut, N. (n.d.). The reproduction of open source software communities. Ph.D. work at Berkeley. http://www2.parc.com/csl/members/nicolas/open-source.html Gao, Y. (2003). Topology and evolution of the Open Source Software community. MS Thesis. University of Notre Dame. http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/ygaoThesisFinal_12-2-03.pdf Gao, Y., Madey, G., & Freeh, V. (2003). Modeling and simulation of a complex social system: A case study. http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/SimulationSym37_gao.pdf Kuwabara, K. (2000). Linux: A bazaar at the edge of chaos. First Monday, vol. 5, no. 3 (March 2000). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_3/kuwabara/index.html Lopez-Fernandez, L., Robles-Martinez, G., & Gonzalez-Barahona, J.M. (2004). Applying social network analysis to the information in CVS repositories. http://libresoft.dat.escet.urjc.es/html/downloads/sna-icse-2004.pdf http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/slides/LopezFernandez.pdf Madey, G., Freeh, V., & Tynan, R. (2004). Modeling the F/OSS Community: A quantitative investigation. In S. Koch (ed.), Free/Open Source Software Development. Idea Publishing. http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/BookChapter.pdf Meyer, P.B. (2003). Episodes of collective invention. Working Paper 368. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/meyer.pdf Mockus, A., Fielding, R.T., & Herbsleb, J.D. (n.d.). Two case studies of Open Source Software development: Apache and Mozilla. http://www.research.avayalabs.com/techreport/ALR-2002-003-paper.pdf Myers, C.R. (2003). Software systems as complex networks: Structure, function, and evolvability of software collaboration graphs. Cond-mat/0305575. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305575 O’Mahony, S., & Ferraro, F. (2003). Managing the boundary of an ‘open’ project. Prepared for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Workshop on .The Network Construction of Markets.. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/omahonyferraro.pdf te Meerman, S. (2003). Puzzling with a top-down blueprint and a bottom-up network: An explorative analysis of the Open Source world using ITIL and Social Network Analysis. MS Thesis, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/meerman2.pdf Waguespack, D.M., & Fleming, L. (2004). Penguins, camels, and other birds of a feather: The emergence of leaders in open innovation communities. http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/elf/ECON222/Waguespack%20Fleming.pdf Wasko, M.M., & Teigland, R. (2002). The provision of online public goods: Examining social structure in an electronic network of practice. 23rd International Conference on Information Systems. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~aschwarz/workshop/abstracts/teiglanda.htm Xu, J., & Madey, G. (2004). Exploration of the Open Source Software community. NAACSOS Conference 2004. http://casos.isri.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2004_proceedings/XuJin1.pdf