Research Article

BurstBiRank: Co-Ranking Developers and Projects in GitHub with Complex Network Structures and Bursty Interactions

Table 1

Notations and explanations.

SymbolExplanation

Ranking score of developer i
Ranking score of project j
Query vectors for developer i
Query vectors for project j
degree of developer i
diagonal matrix with
degree of project j
diagonal matrix with
Burstiness of interactions between developer i and project j
Weight matrix of burstiness-weighted bipartite network; is its element
α, ßInfection rate and recovery rate in SIR simulation, respectively
γ, λHyperparameters for balancing diffusion scores and prior beliefs
SSymmetric normalization of weight matrix W