Fwd: [LDTA] Call for Systems for Experimental Software and Toolkits (EST)

Roel Wuyts roel.wuyts at ulb.ac.be
Thu Jun 9 15:38:31 UTC 2005


It could be interesting to submit some of the bigger and more stable  
software developed in Smalltalk for this journal... Lots of  
interesting code is written in Smalltalk but does not get visibility  
outside the community; this sounds like a great opportunity for some  
more visibility!


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>> From: "Mark van den Brand" <Mark.van.den.Brand at cwi.nl>
>> Date: Wed 8 Jun 2005 08:40:56 CEST
>> To: ldta at loria.fr, eapls at jismail.ac.uk, ipa at tue.nl
>> Cc: Mark.van.den.Brand at cwi.nl
>> Subject: [LDTA] Call for Systems for Experimental Software and  
>> Toolkits (EST)
>> Reply-To: Mark.van.den.Brand at cwi.nl
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>          Call for Systems of Science of Computer Programming
>>                         for a Special Issue on
>>                Experimental Software and Toolkits (EST)
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>       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 (Mark.van.den.Brand at 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/.
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> M.G.J. van den Brand
>>
>> Department of Software Engineering
>> CWI
>> Kruislaan 413
>> NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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