With the rapid development of Internet, Internetware has attracted a lot of attention as a new promising computing paradigm. Internetware can evolve continuously during runtime with the changes of its environment, thus to achieve higher software ...

Social coding paradigm is reshaping the distributed software development with a surprising speed in recent years. Github, a remarkable social coding community, attracts a huge number of developers in a short time. Various kinds of social networks are ...

Social coding sites (e.g., Github) provide various features like Forking and Sending Pull-requests to support crowd-based software engineering. When using these features, a large amount of user behavior data is recorded. User behavior data can reflect ...

In recent years, a lot of crowdsourcing systems have emerged and lead to many successful crowdsourcing systems like Wiki-pedia, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Waze. In the field of software engineering, crowdtesting has acquired increased interest and ...

Entity resolution is the process of identifying the data records representing the same entity. ER is a highly important problem in software and application domains. For example, detecting duplicate bug reports with ER can greatly save developing ...

Crowdsourcing means outsourcing to a large network of people – a crowd. It has emerged as a new option for a global labor market; it is another valuable option in the ´make or buy´ software decision and has been gaining attention in countries where ...

As crowdsourcing has been applied to a variety of disciplines, e.g. marketing and operationalization, more and more scientists turn their sights to how the crowd innovate software engineering to produce high quality software. However, they mainly focus ...