Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

2-2012

Abstract

The social network perspective has served as a useful framework for studying scientific research collaboration in different disciplines. Although collaboration in computer science research has received some attention, software engineering research collaboration has remained unexplored to a large extent. In this paper, we examine the collaboration networks based on co-authorship information of papers from ten software engineering publication venues over the 1976-2010 time period. We compare time variations of certain parameters of these networks with corresponding parameters of collaboration networks from other disciplines. We also explore whether software engineering collaboration networks manifest symptoms of the small-world phenomenon, conform to the criteria of "social networks", and manifest increasing collaboration with time. In the light of these observations, we highlight some general characteristics of collaboration in software engineering research. The results presented in this paper facilitate understanding of the progression of software engineering from its infancy to maturity, and lay the foundation for developing theoretical models to explain the evolution of its research collaboration characteristics.

Keywords

clustering, collaboration, power law, social network analysis, software engineering research

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Organizational Communication | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

ISEC ’12: Proceedings of the 5th India Software Engineering Conference, Kanpur, February 22-25

First Page

61

Last Page

70

ISBN

9781450311427

Identifier

10.1145/2134254.2134265

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/2134254.2134265

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