I've recently been doing a little reading on reproducible results, and came upon a very appealing point of view in the following :
http://sepwww.stanford.edu/doku.php?id=sep:research:reproducible:seg92 Jon Claerbout and Martin Karrenbach, Electronic documents give reproducible research a new meaning, in Proc. 62nd Ann. Int. Meeting of the Soc. of Exploration Geophysics, 1992, pp. 601-604. The idea is wonderfully simple (at least to visualize) - if you have a table of results, have a push button in the electronic version of the paper that lets reader and author alike reproduce the results. Presumably this would also let the reader see the code, data, etc (and not just run a canned sort of demo) Clearly this isn't a simple thing to do, but the technology certainly exists where it is at least possible, so seems like it's worth having out there as a kind of gold standard for what it would mean for a paper to be reproducible (it would quite literally be true, the paper itself reproduces its own results...) In addition, I recently read found the following paper, which includes a bit of argument in favor of reproducible results, and also does a small case study in the author's discipline which is rather interesting... http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jelenak/Repository/07_04_Icassp_Kovacevic.pdf J. Kovačević, "How to encourage and publish reproducible research," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, and Signal Proc., Honolulu, HI, Apr. 2007, pp. IV:1273-1276. Enjoy, Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlpatumd/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlpatumd/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
