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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2016-08-05

发表刊物：SPRINGERPLUS

收录刊物：SCIE、PubMed、Scopus

卷号：5

期号：1

页面范围：1268

ISSN号：2193-1801

关键字：Social coding; Github; HITS; Influence analysis

摘要：With the support of cloud computing techniques, social coding platforms have changed the style of software development. Github is now the most popular social coding platform and project hosting service. Software developers of various levels keep entering Github, and use Github to save their public and private software projects. The large amounts of software developers and software repositories on Github are posing new challenges to the world of software engineering. This paper tries to tackle one of the important problems: analyzing the importance and influence of Github repositories. We proposed a HITS based influence analysis on graphs that represent the star relationship between Github users and repositories. A weighted version of HITS is applied to the overall star graph, and generates a different set of top influential repositories other than the results from standard version of HITS algorithm. We also conduct the influential analysis on per-month star graph, and study the monthly influence ranking of top repositories.