%0 Conference Proceedings %B Proceedings of the 41st Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) %D 2008 %T Shared mental models among open source software developers %A Scozzi, Barbara %A Kevin Crowston %A Eseryel, U. Yeliz %A Li, Qing %X 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. %B Proceedings of the 41st Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) %C Big Island, Hawai'i, 7-10 January %G eng %R 10.1109/HICSS.2008.391 %> https://floss.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/SharedMntalModels.pdf