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[Axiom-developer] Reproducible Research Repository
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daly |
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[Axiom-developer] Reproducible Research Repository |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:57:52 -0500 |
The Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne has introduced
an online journal for reproducible research at:
<http://rr.epfl.ch/17/>
The introductory headline reads:
Have you ever tried to reproduce the results presented in a research
paper? For many of our current publications, this would unfortunately
be a challenging task. For a computational algorithm, details such as
the exact dataset, initialization or termination procedures and precise
parameter values are often omitted in the publication for various
reasons. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, for someone else
to obtain the same results. To address the problem, we have started
making our research reproducible. Instead of only describing the
developed algorithms to 'sufficient' precision in an article, we give
readers access to all the information (code, data, schemes, etc) that
was used to produce the presented results as first advocated by Knuth
and Claerbout. We are convinced that making research reproducible is
not only a matter of good practice, but also increases the impact of
our publications and makes it easier to build upon each other's work.
It is a clear win-win situation for our community: we will have access
to more and more algorithms and can spend time inventing new things
rather than recreating existing ones.
- [Axiom-developer] Reproducible Research Repository,
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