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From: Kim Mens Kim.Mens@uclouvain.be Date: November 12, 2010 10:51:21 PM GMT+01:00 To: all INGI / INFO all-ingi@listes.uclouvain.be, moves-announce@soft.vub.ac.be, researchers VARIBRU varibru-team@googlegroups.com, Benevol2008 benevol2008@win.tue.nl, evol@lists.inf.unisi.ch Subject: [Evol] Call for Systems of the 4th Science of Computer Programming special issue on Experimental Software and Toolkits

============================================= Call for Systems: Science of Computer Programming

              Fourth special issue on
      Experimental Software and Toolkits (EST)

    Deadline for submissions: January 17th, 2011
          In cooperation with WASDeTT 2010

      http://www.win.tue.nl/~mvdbrand/SCP-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 (EST) 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.

The first call for systems resulted in the special issue published as Volume 69, Numbers 1-3 of Science of Computer Programming. The second issue was published as special issue as Volume 72, Numbers 1-2 of Science of Computer Programming. The third issue was in cooperation with WASDeTT2008 and was published as third special issue as Volume 75, Number 4 of Science of Computer Programming. Given the success of these special issues, a fourth special issue is planned, the deadline for submitting systems is the 17th of January, 2011.

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 paper. We want to go one step further than the tool demonstrations at the various conferences. The software systems is reviewed on various aspects:

• ease of installation,
• quality of (user) documentation,
• ease of usage, and
• applicability and relevance to the intended domain.

Referees will also be 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, the software system will be published by Elsevier as well.

Guidelines for authors

In order to submit a software system the author has to produce a tool description paper, we expect the size and quality of a research paper but the topic is on the tool, its usability, installation, and optionally a few words on tool building issues. The size of the tool description paper is at least 12 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.

Instructions

The submission deadline is January 17th, 2011. Authors are requested to submit their system and corresponding paper electronically to EES (see http://ees.elsevier.com/scico) in PDF format by selecting 'SI: WASDETT EST 2010'. We encourage the use of the Elsevier style file for LaTeX (see http://www.elsevier.com/locate/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 editors

Prof. Mark G.J. van den Brand Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) Den Dolech 2 NL-5612 AZ Eindhoven, Netherlands URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~mvdbrand

Prof. Kim Mens Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) Louvain School of Engineering (EPL) Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM) Department of Computing Science and Engineering Place Sainte Barbe, 2 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium URL: http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~km

Dr. Holger Kienle School of Innovation, Design and Engineering Mälardalen University Box 883 721 23 Västerås Sweden URL: http://holgerkienle.wikispaces.com/

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