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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 45 , Issue 2 (February 2002) table of contents
Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept

Pages: 67 - 72

Year of Publication: 2002

ISSN:0001-0782

Authors

Bert J. Dempsey	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Debra Weiss	UNC School of Information and Library Science
Paul Jones	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jane Greenberg	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Profiling a community of Linux developers.

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	Gregory B. Newby , Jane Greenberg , Paul Jones, Open source software development and Lotka's law: bibliometric patterns in programming, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v.54 n.2, p.169-178, January 2003
	Christian Bird , Alex Gourley , Prem Devanbu , Michael Gertz , Anand Swaminathan, Mining email social networks, Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories, May 22-23, 2006, Shanghai, China
	Morten Sieker Andreasen , Henrik Villemann Nielsen , Simon Ormholt Schrøder , Jan Stage, What happened to remote usability testing?: an empirical study of three methods, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 28-May 03, 2007, San Jose, California, USA
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	Stefan Koch, Software evolution in open source projects—a large-scale investigation, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, v.19 n.6, p.361-382, November 2007