Treude, Christoph. The role of emergent knowledge structures in collaborative software development. In ICSE '10: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2010. [doi]
Many collaboration features in software development tools draw on lightweight technologies such as tagging and wikis. We propose to study the role of emergent knowledge structures created through these features. Using a mixed-methods approach, we investigate which processes emergent knowledge structures support and how tool support can leverage them.