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
>>
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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 (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/.
>>
>>
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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
>> Email__Mark.van.den.Brand at cwi.nl
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