<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scozzi, Barbara</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crowston, Kevin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eseryel, U. Yeliz</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Li, Qing</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shared mental models among open source software developers</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the 41st Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">FLOSS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mental Model</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://floss.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/SharedMntalModels.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Big Island, Hawai'i, 7-10 January</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shared understandings are important for software development as they guide to effective individual contributions to, and coordination of, the software development process. In this paper, we present the results of a preliminary analysis on shared mental models within Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams. Based on structuration theory and by adopting cognitive mapping and process analysis, we represented and com-pared the mental models of some developers of the Lucene Java project. Our analysis suggests that there is a high-level of sharing among core developers but the shar-ing is not complete, with some differences related to ten-ure in the project.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>