Papers
. (2006). Social dynamics of free and open source team communications. In Proceedings of the IFIP Second International Conference on Open Source Systems (pp. 319-330). Lake Como, Italy, 8-9 June.
SocialDynamics.pdf (268.56 KB). (2006). Assessing the health of open source communities. Ieee Computer, 39(5), 89-91. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2006.152
Paper.pdf (397.76 KB). (2014). Collaboration through superposition: How the IT artifact as an object of collaboration affords technical interdependence without organizational interdependence. Mis Quarterly, 38(1), 29-50. https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2014/38.1.02
CollaborationThroughSuperposition-WorkingPaper.pdf (1.81 MB). (2006). FLOSSmole: A collaborative repository for FLOSS research data and analyses. International Journal Of Information Technology And Web Engineering, 1(3), 17–26.
FLOSSmole.pdf (212.33 KB). (2012). Free/Libre Open Source Software Development: What we know and what we do not know. Acm Computing Surveys, 44. https://doi.org/10.1145/2089125.2089127
CrowstonFLOSSReviewPaperPreprint.pdf (767.41 KB) Appendix 1 Journal and Conference Names.pdf (25.9 KB) Appendix 2 Coding Scheme.pdf (16.55 KB) Appendix 3 Studies included in the review.pdf (170.37 KB). (2006). Hierarchy and centralization in Free and Open Source Software team communications. Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 18, 65–85.
HierarchyAndCentralization.pdf (566.38 KB). (2006). Information systems success in Free and Open Source Software development: Theory and measures. Software Process–Improvement And Practice, 11, 123–148. https://doi.org/10.1002/spip.259
InformationSystemsSuccessInFree.pdf (1.1 MB). (2007). The role of face-to-face meetings in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams. Ieee Transactions On Professional Communications, 50, 185–203. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2007.902654
070122.pdf (1.94 MB). (2007). Self-organization of teams in free/libre open source software development. Information And Software Technology Journal: Special Issue On Understanding The Social Side Of Software Engineering, Qualitative Software Engineering Research, 49(6), 564–575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.004
060918.pdf (282.58 KB). (2005). The social structure of Free and Open Source Software development. First Monday, 10. Retrieved de http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1207/1127
Social structure of Free and Open Source Software development.pdf (506.96 KB). (2016). Stigmergic coordination in FLOSS development teams: Integrating explicit and implicit mechanisms. Cognitive Systems Research, 38, 14–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2015.12.003
COGSYS-RS-(HHS)-(2015)-(3).pdf (218.8 KB). (2011). Validity issues in the use of social network analysis with digital trace data. Journal Of The Association For Information Systems, 12(12). https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00282
JAIS.RA-JAIS-08-0130-ReferencesFixed.pdf (1020.33 KB). (2008). Asynchronous Decision-Making in Distributed Teams (Poster). In Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.
CSCW2008Poster11x17Draft.pdf (198.92 KB). (2007). Building a collaboratory for research on open source software development (Poster). In eSocial Science Conference.
Howison_eSocSciPoster-small.pdf (1.06 MB) HSD 2007 poster - Small PDF (5.93 MB) SD 2007 poster - Full Adobe PDF (41.76 MB) hsd2006poster (69.42 MB). (2007). A proposed data and analysis archive for research on Free and Open Source Software and its development (Poster). In eSocial Science Conference.
. (2017). Work features to support stigmergic coordination in distributed teams. In Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
Stigmergy theory paper to share.pdf (261.44 KB). (2016). Manifesto on Engineering Academic Software (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 16252). In Dagstuhl Manifestos. Wadern, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics.
stigmergy-short.pdf (121.04 KB)