4 papers
The CriticalSet problem: Identifying Critical Contributors in Bipartite Dependency Networks
Sebastiano A. Piccolo, Andrea Tagarelli
Identifying critical nodes in complex networks is a fundamental task in graph mining. Yet, methods addressing an all-or-nothing coverage mechanics in a bipartite dependency network…
Project resilience as network robustness
Sebastiano A. Piccolo, Giorgio Terracina
Engineering projects are the result of the combined effort of their members. Yet, it has been documented that labor division withing projects is unevenly distributed: some project…
The Theory and Practice of Computing the Bus-Factor
Sebastiano A. Piccolo, Pasquale De Meo, Giorgio Terracina +1
The bus-factor is a measure of project risk with respect to personnel availability, informally defined as the number of people whose sudden unavailability would cause a project to…
Fast and Accurate Heuristics for Bus-Factor Estimation
Sebastiano Antonio Piccolo
The bus-factor is a critical risk indicator that quantifies how many key contributors a project can afford to lose before core knowledge or functionality is compromised. Despite it…