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most citedDo We Run How We Say We Run? Formalization and Practice of Governance in OSS Communities

6 citations · 14 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

The Hidden AI Race: Tracking Environmental Costs of Innovation

Shyam Agarwal, Mahasweta Chakraborti

The past decade has seen a massive rise in the popularity of AI systems, mainly owing to the developments in Gen AI, which has revolutionized numerous industries and applications.…

cs.CL2025

A Human Behavioral Baseline for Collective Governance in Software Projects

Mobina Noori, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Amy X Zhang +1

We study how open source communities describe participation and control through version controlled governance documents. Using a corpus of 710 projects with paired snapshots, we pa…

cs.CY2025

Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community Governance of Open Source

Mobina Noori, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Amy X Zhang +1

Open digital public infrastructure needs community management to ensure accountability, sustainability, and robustness. Yet open-source projects often rely on centralized decision-…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

Responsible AI in Open Ecosystems: Reconciling Innovation with Risk Assessment and Disclosure

Mahasweta Chakraborti, Bert Joseph Prestoza, Nicholas Vincent +1

The rapid scaling of AI has spurred a growing emphasis on ethical considerations in both development and practice. This has led to the formulation of increasingly sophisticated mod…

cs.HC2024★ 4 cited

NLP4Gov: A Comprehensive Library for Computational Policy Analysis

Mahasweta Chakraborti, Sailendra Akash Bonagiri, Santiago Virgüez-Ruiz +1

Formal rules and policies are fundamental in formally specifying a social system: its operation, boundaries, processes, and even ontology. Recent scholarship has highlighted the ro…

cs.HC2023★ 6 cited

Do We Run How We Say We Run? Formalization and Practice of Governance in OSS Communities

Mahasweta Chakraborti, Curtis Atkisson, Stefan Stanciulescu +2

Open Source Software (OSS) communities often resist regulation typical of traditional organizations. Yet formal governance systems are being increasingly adopted among communities,…

cs.CY2022★ 1 cited

Deconstructing written rules and hierarchy in peer produced software communities

Mahasweta Chakraborti, Beril Bulat, Qiankun Zhong +2

We employ recent advances in computational institutional analysis and NLP to investigate the systems of authority that are reflected in the written policy documents of the ASF. Our…

cs.SE2022★ 1 cited

Open Source Software Sustainability: Combining Institutional Analysis and Socio-Technical Networks

Likang Yin, Mahasweta Chakraborty, Charles Schweik +2

Open Source Software (OSS) forms much of the fabric of our digital society, especially successful and sustainable ones. But many OSS projects do not become sustainable, resulting i…

cs.CL2021

Insta-VAX: A Multimodal Benchmark for Anti-Vaccine and Misinformation Posts Detection on Social Media

Mingyang Zhou, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Sijia Qian +2

Sharing of anti-vaccine posts on social media, including misinformation posts, has been shown to create confusion and reduce the publics confidence in vaccines, leading to vaccine…