You might think about publishing this, with code, 
in http://rescience.github.io/

On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 1:25:13 PM UTC+1, Paul Leopardi wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have just completed the first draft of a paper, "Classifying bent 
> functions by their Cayley graphs". 
> <https://sites.google.com/site/paulleopardi/Leopardi-Bent-functions-Cayley-graphs.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1>
>  
> The computational results of the paper are fully reproducible via worksheets 
> in a SageMathCloud public folder 
> <https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/80f4c9e7-8a37-4f59-82e7-aa179ec0b652/files/Boolean-Cayley-graphs/>
>  
> and Sage code in a GitHub repository 
> <https://github.com/penguian/Boolean-Cayley-graphs>.
> When I developed the code I tried to follow the Sage coding conventions 
> <http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/coding_basics.html>, but my 
> primary goal up until now has been to obtain results and finish the paper 
> while keeping the code as clear and readable as I could.
>
>
> The purpose of the code is to calculate the Cayley graph classifications 
> of the extended translation classes of bent functions, and their duals. All 
> of these terms are defined in the paper, but briefly,
>
>    - A* bent function* is a Boolean function on an even number of bits 
>    that is as far as possible (in Hamming weight distance) from any affine 
>    Boolean function; equivalently a Boolean function whose Walsh-Hadamard 
>    transform has constant absolute value.
>    - The dual of a bent function *f* is obtained from the Walsh-Hadamard 
>    transform of *f*, and is also a bent function.
>    - The *Cayley graph* of a Boolean function* f*, with *f(0)=0*, is a 
>    graph whose vertices are all the bit vectors of a given dimension, with an 
>    edge between vectors x and y if and only if *f(x+y)=1*. This Cayley 
>    graph is *strongly regular* if *f* is bent.
>    - The *extended translation class* of a bent function *f* on boolean 
>    vector space* V* is the set of all functions of the form *g(x) = 
>    f(x+b) + <c,x> + d*, where *b, c* are in *V* and d is 0 or 1.
>    - The *Cayley graph classification* of the extended translation class 
>    of a bent function* f* is the set of all isomorphism classes of Cayley 
>    graphs of the functions *f(x+b) + <c,x> + f(b)*.
>
> The output of the code is displayed in the paper, and in the SageMathCloud 
> worksheets, and (with some exceptions) is also saved as objects of class 
> *BentFunctionCayleyGraphClassification* in both the public folder and the 
> GitHub repository.
>
>
> Questions:
>
>    1. Is there a process to ask for a code review of this type of code 
>    (i.e. code primarily written to support a paper)?
>    2. Do you have any suggestions as to how and where I could publish a 
>    fully peer reviewed version of such a long (52 page draft) paper with so 
>    many examples, tables and figures?
>    3. Is there a process to promote this code, or a part of this code to 
>    Sage itself? 
>    Note: if this requires a complete rewrite then this could take me some 
>    time, as it is a one-person project conducted in my spare time as an 
>    Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne.
>    4. Is there any interest in my further developing this code to include 
>    a database (e.g. SQL) of Cayley graph classifications?
>    
> Thanks!
>
>
> Paul Leopardi <https://sites.google.com/site/paulleopardi/> 
>
>
> PS. I have presented this work in stages at the University of Queensland 
> <https://sites.google.com/site/paulleopardi/Leopardi-ACCMCC-2015-talk-revised.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1>,
>  
> the University of Newcastle 
> <https://sites.google.com/site/paulleopardi/Leopardi-ACCMCC-2016-talk.pdf?attredirects=0>,
>  
> and RMIT University 
> <https://sites.google.com/site/paulleopardi/Leopardi-Bent-functions-RMIT-2017-talk.pdf?attredirects=0>,
>  
> and will also present it at 2MCGTC in Malta next month 
> <http://www.um.edu.mt/events/2mcgtc2017/index.html>.
>

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