Courtesy of A. E. Hassan and R. C. Holt, Software Architecture Group, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.

We examine the publications produced by researchers in the areas of software maintenance and reengineering in several international conferences. We develop a social collaboration network for the community using the co-authorship data for these conferences.

In particular, we build a graph that has as nodes each author who published in these conferences. An edge exists between two nodes if they co-authored a paper together. The size of each node in the graphs is proportional to the number of publications by the node (author).

Examples of such graphs are shown above. The GDL sources were generated using the co-authorship data for the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), and the Reengineering and Maintenance conference, respectively. The graphs were laid out using aiSee's force-directed layout algorithm. Thus, author nodes in the layout are closer to other author nodes with which they interact the most.

A. E. Hassan and R. C. Holt, University of Waterloo.

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