[Insight-developers] Fwd: Enter the Executable Papers Grand Challenge

Tue Dec 7 10:23:06 EST 2010

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Subject: 	Enter the Executable Papers Grand Challenge
Date: 	Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:24:37 -0500
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*Call for Abstracts: The Executable Paper Grand Challenge*
*Organized by the Journal of Computational Science, Elsevier, and the 
International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS)*.

*The Challenge: How can data intensive research be made repeatable and 
workable within the context of a scholarly journal article? *

Data sets, code, and software are but some of the crucial elements in 
data intensive research; yet, these elements are noticeably absent when 
the research is recorded and preserved in perpetuity by way of a 
scholarly journal article. Further, most researchers do not deposit data 
related to their research article; and if they do so, it is often 
deposited on their personal or institutional websites, lacking 
consistency, reliable dissemination, discoverability, proper association 
(to the research article), documentation, validation, and preservation. 
To address all these concerns and to accommodate the every increasing 
body of data intensive science, considerable adaptations to the existing 
journal article are fundamental to accommodating the need to 
disseminate, validate, and archive research data, as well as a method to 
allow this data, in some way or form, to be validated, citable, 
tractable, and executable. To achieve this adaptation to scholarly 
publication, several issues must be addressed; the most vital being:

    * *Executability* - How to make equations, tables and graphs
      interactive in such a way that reviewers and readers can check,
      manipulate and explore the result space? How to make the
      components of the experiment that generates these elements
      available to the reader so the experiment can be repeated and
      manipulated?
    * *Short and long-term compatibility* - How can we develop a model
      for executable files that is compatible with the user's operating
      system and architecture and adaptable to future systems?
    * *Validation* - How do we validate data and code, and decrease the
      reviewer's workload? How can validation of this information be
      made easy for the reviewer?
    * *Copyright/licensing* - Data of this nature should always be
      freely available to researchers: how can this principle be
      encouraged, while maintaining author's patent and intellectual
      property protection?
    * *Systems* - How do we convey work done on large-scale computers,
      which are possibly only available to a small portion of the
      author/reader community?
    * *Size* - How do we manage very large file sizes?
    * *Provenance* - How to support registering and tracking of actions
      taken on the 'executable paper?'
    * *Other issues* - How do we tackle risks and liabilities, including
      viruses and code contamination, plagiarism, or other problems?

The Challenge is open to all professionals, instructors, students or 
enthusiasts in the field of computer science, who are invited to put 
forth ideas pertaining to these pressing and unsolved issues. The First 
Place winner will receive $10,000 USD and and Apple iPAD with Wi-Fi and 
3G : second and third place winners will receive $5,000 and $2,500 USD, 
as well as an Apple iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G respectively.

Visit www.executablepapers.com 
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*Important dates:*

    * Abstract (2000 words) deadline: January 15, 2011
    * Notification of finalists: February 1, 2011
    * Demo of the prototype/instantiation/application and a short paper
      (8000 words): May 20, 2011
    * Presentation of prototype/instantiation/application: June 3, 2011

*Panel of Judges:*

    * IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, /Content Innovation, Elsevier,
      Amsterdam, NL/
    * Ilkay Altintas, /San Diego Supercomputing Centre, San Diego,
      California, USA/
    * Marian Bubak, /AGH Krakow, Poland/
    * Carol Goble, /University of Manchester, Manchester, UK/
    * Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya, /University of St. Petersburg and
      University of Amsterdam, St Petersburg, Russia and Amsterdam, NL/
    * David Rosenthal, /Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California, USA/
    * Ed Seidel, NSF, /Washington DC, USA/
    * Rafael Sidi, /ScienceDirect, Elsevier, New York, New York, USA/
    * Peter Sloot, /(External Chair of the Executable Paper Grand
      Challenge), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam NL /
    * Anita de Waard, /Elsevier Labs, Burlington, VT, USA/

The Executable Paper Grand Challenge will take place at ICCS 2011, June 
1-3, in Tsukuba, Japan.

*Submit your executable paper here 
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Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2011.*

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