Elsevier Announces Winners of the Executable Paper Grand Challenge
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"Elsevier...announced the winners of the Executable Paper Grand Challenge (http://www.executablepapers.com/), a program Elsevier created to address the difficulties associated with reproducing computer science research results....Top honors went to The Collage Authoring Environment...[which is] a scalable architecture designed to support authors, reviewers, and end users as well as publishers. The system allows researchers to create papers by combining narrative discussion with snippets of executable code....Second Prize...[went to] SHARE [Sharing Hosted Autonomous Research Environments]: A Web Portal for Creating and Sharing Executable Research Papers....By deploying a copy of the required operating system in SHARE as well as relevant software and data, authors can make a conventional paper fully reproducible and interactive...."