@misc{898764c7aad04e7b814c586fc5cb40fc,
title = "Bots Coordinating Work in Open Source Software Projects",
abstract = "Increasingly, bots are being used to coordinate work in open source software projects. As mechanisms that ensure the smooth functioning of open source software projects, bot activity influences how scholars and practitioners understand open source software development.",
author = "Philipp Hukal and Nicholas Berente and Matt Germonprez and Aaron Schecter",
note = "Funding Information: This project received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Digital Technology grant on Open Source Health and Sustainability 8434 (https://sloan.org /grant-detail/8434). Funding Information: MATT GERMONPREZ is the Mutual of Omaha Associate Professor of Information Systems in the College of Information Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska Omaha. His research interests include using qualitative field studies to research corporate engagement with open communities and the dynamics of design in these engagements. His lines of research have been funded by numerous organizations including the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Mozilla. He is cofounder of the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Open Research and Practice and the Linux Foundation Community Health Analytics Open Source Software Project. Contact him at mgermonprez@ unomaha.edu. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1970-2012 IEEE.",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1109/MC.2018.2885970",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "52",
pages = "52--60",
journal = "ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering",
issn = "0018-9162",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
}