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The reproducibility of software environments is a critical concern in modern software engineering, with ramifications ranging from the effectiveness of collaboration workflows to software supply chain security and scientific…

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Software has long been established as an essential aspect of the scientific process in mathematics and other disciplines. However, reliably referencing software in scientific publications is still challenging for various reasons. A crucial…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Helge Holzmann , Wolfram Sperber , Mila Runnwerth

Computational physics increasingly depends on large simulation datasets generated by software that remains under active development for many years. In such settings, reproducibility requires not only well documented data but also explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Markus Uehlein , Tobias Held , Christopher Seibel , Lukas G. Jonda , Baerbel Rethfeld , Sebastian T. Weber

The reproducibility of scientific experiment is vital for the advancement of disciplines based on previous work. To achieve this goal, many researchers focus on complex methodology and self-invented tools which have difficulty in practical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Feng Zhao , Xingzhi Niu , Shao-Lun Huang , Lin Zhang

Computational methods have reshaped the landscape of modern biology. While the biomedical community is increasingly dependent on computational tools, the mechanisms ensuring open data, open software, and reproducibility are variably…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-28 Jaqueline J. Brito , Jun Li , Jason H. Moore , Casey S. Greene , Nicole A. Nogoy , Lana X. Garmire , Serghei Mangul

Software citation contributes to achieving software sustainability in two ways: It provides an impact metric to incentivize stakeholders to make software sustainable. It also provides references to software used in research, which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Stephan Druskat , Daniel S. Katz , Ilian T. Todorov

We describe a unique environment in which undergraduate students from various STEM and social science disciplines are trained in data provenance and reproducible methods, and then apply that knowledge to real, conditionally accepted…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lars Vilhuber , Hyuk Harry Son , Meredith Welch , David N. Wasser , Michael Darisse

Sustainable software ecosystems are difficult to build, and require concerted effort, community norms and collaborations. In science it is especially important to establish communities in which faculty, staff, students and open-source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Marcus D. Hanwell , Amitha Perera , Wes Turner , Patrick O'Leary , Katie Osterdahl , Bill Hoffman , Will Schroeder

Reproducibility is a key requirement for scientific progress. It allows the reproduction of the works of others, and, as a consequence, to fully trust the reported claims and results. In this work, we argue that, by facilitating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Alejandro Bellogín , Alan Said

As computational work becomes more and more integral to many aspects of scientific research, computational reproducibility has become an issue of increasing importance to computer systems researchers and domain scientists alike. Though…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Carl Boettiger

The integration of machine learning techniques in materials discovery has become prominent in materials science research and has been accompanied by an increasing trend towards open-source data and tools to propel the field. Despite the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Daniel Persaud , Logan Ward , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

Computational reproducibility is a growing problem that has been extensively studied among computational researchers and within the signal processing and machine learning research community. However, with the changing landscape of signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Joseph Shenouda , Waheed U. Bajwa

Dedicated software search engines that index open source software repositories or in-house software assets significantly enhance the chance of finding software components suitable for reuse. However, they still leave the work of evaluating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Werner Janjic , Dietmar Stoll , Philipp Bostan , Colin Atkinson

This document explores the advantages of integrating open source software and practices in managing a scientific lab, emphasizing reproducibility and the avoidance of pitfalls. It details practical applications from website management using…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Julien Cohen-Adad

In this article, we present the challenge of software citation as a method to ensure credit for and identification, discovery, and reuse of software in scientific and engineering research. We discuss related work and key challenges/research…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Kyle E. Niemeyer , Arfon M. Smith , Daniel S. Katz

While experimental reproduction remains a pillar of the scientific method, we observe that the software best practices supporting the reproduction of machine learning ( ML ) research are often undervalued or overlooked, leading both to poor…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Moritz Wolter , Lokesh Veeramacheneni , Charles Tapley Hoyt

This paper proposes a software repository model together with associated tooling and consists of several complex, open-source GUI driven applications ready to be used in empirical software research. We start by providing the rationale for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Arthur-Jozsef Molnar

Software is the key crosscutting technology that enables advances in mathematics, computer science, and domain-specific science and engineering to achieve robust simulations and analysis for science, engineering, and other research fields.…

The nature of software re-engineering is to improve or transform existing software so it can be understood, controlled and reused as new software. Needs, the necessity of re-engineering software has greatly increased. The system software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-12-20 Phuc V. Nguyen

Although computer science papers are often accompanied by software artifacts, connecting research papers to their software artifacts and vice versa is not always trivial. First of all, there is a lack of well-accepted standards for how such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Hideaki Hata , Jin L. C. Guo , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Christoph Treude