Somebody asked me kindly to distribute the following announcement in
the Lisp community. Feel free to redistribute it to your networks.
Kind regards and hoping to meet you at Stanford,
Ernst van Waning
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Call for Systems of Science of Computer Programming
for a Special Issue on
Experimental Software and Toolkits (EST)
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The idea in a nutshell: Reproducibility and Accessibility
The journal "Science of Computer Programming" of Elsevier
Science has a long history of publishing high-quality articles on
programming and software. The idea of this special issue on
Experimental Software and Toolkits (ETS) is to allow academic
software developers to publish the software system they
developed together with a short paper. We hope this will help the
software community to find a wider audience for their work.
Moreover, by enhancing the accessibility and the reproducibility of
results, we hope to help to encourage a wider application and
adoption of experimental software.
Aim and scope
Academic software development may involve the development of
huge software systems in order to perform all kinds of experiments.
This can be compared with huge experiments in physics or
chemistry. The focus of researchers developing such experimental
software systems is mainly on software development. The software
developer has some idea, algorithmic or functional, and in
order to prove his or her idea software is adapted or newly
developed. Some of these systems are distributed to different
researchers and may become very popular in the community. The
software development of these systems is almost always in conflict
with papers that are to be written. Specially if the users
community grows and the requests for enhancements and
improvements increases. The application areas of these
software systems are rather diverse, from language prototyping
environments, theorem provers, visualisation tools, renovation
tools, programming environments, etc.
This EST initiative is focussed on the creation of a forum
where beside the paper the software system itself is published. Two
obvious questions arise here:
* What is the difference between this initiative and the open source
facilities like SourceForge? The most important and challenging
difference is that the software is reviewed. A number of
independent referees will review both the system and the system
description paper and will give a verdict.
* What is the difference with tool demonstrations at conferences and
workshops. The difference is that at conferences tool
demonstrations are accepted based on the tool demonstration only,
the referee has no opportunity to install and use the system or
have a look at the code.
We want to invite authors to submit software systems together with a
short paper. We want to go one step further than the tool
demonstrations at the various conferences, such as Compiler
Construction. The software systems is reviewed on various aspects:
* ease of installation,
* quality of (user) documentation,
* ease of usage, and
* applicability to the indented domain.
Referees are also invited to have a look at the actual code of
the system. The major improvement over the conference and workshop
tool demonstration is that a broader audience is able to use the
system.
Guidelines for authors
In order to submit a software system the author has to produce a
tool description paper, comparable to the tool descriptions
submitted to conferences and workshops. The size of the tool
description paper is
about 10 pages (but need not be limited to 10 pages). The main goal
of the paper is to introduce the tool, the application domain of
the tool and to give a comparison with relevant related
tools and systems. Moreover, relevant theory should concisely be
addressed.
The requirements of the software system itself:
* Installation documentation.
* The source files and an installation script or procedure, it is
possible to provide the binaries as well, but the original source
files are required for code inspection.
* A number of example applications.
* User documentation.
Submission
The submission deadline is October 1st, 2005. Authors are
requested to submit their system and corresponding paper
electronically to the guest editor (··················@cwi.nl),
either in postscript or in PDF format. We encourage the use
of the Elsevier style file for LaTeX.
Copyright
The copyright of the articles is held, except where noted,
by Elsevier Science. Copyright as well as other proprietary
rights in the source code are held by the authors. By submitting the
code along with the article, the authors have agreed to permit
the readers of Science of Computer Programming the right to use
the algorithms for personal and professional research use, but
not for any further redistribution, further sub-licensing, or
commercial use. All rights are otherwise reserved. Authors are
thus free to distribute the published version of the source code
via other media as well as to develop and distribute new versions of
the source code.
Guest editor
Mark van den Brand
Department of Software Engineering
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
Kruislaan 413
NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Institute for Information Technology
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Weesperzijde 190
NL-1097 DZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
For more information see: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~markvdb/SCP-EST/.
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M.G.J. van den Brand
Department of Software Engineering
CWI
Kruislaan 413
NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel___(+31) 20 5924213
WWW____http://www.cwi.nl/~markvdb/
Fax___(+31) 20 5924199
·························@cwi.nl
Instituut voor Informatica
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Weesperzijde 190
NL-1097 DZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Room__A.7.08
Tel___(+31) 20 5951619
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