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Reproducibility remains a central challenge in computational social science, where complex workflows, evolving software ecosystems, and inconsistent documentation hinder researchers ability to re-execute published methods. This study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Fakhri Momeni , Sarah Sajid , Johannes Kiesel

Reproducibility should be a cornerstone of science as it enables validation and reuse. In recent years, the scientific community and the general public became increasingly aware of the reproducibility crisis, i.e. the wide-spread inability…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Sebastian Stefan Feger

Scientific research in many fields routinely requires the analysis of large datasets, and scientists often employ workflow systems to leverage clusters of computers for their data analysis. However, due to their size and scale, these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Lauritz Thamsen , Yehia Elkhatib , Paul Harvey , Syed Waqar Nabi , Jeremy Singer , Wim Vanderbauwhede

This paper investigates the reproducibility of computational science research and identifies key challenges facing the community today. It is the result of the First Summer School on Experimental Methodology in Computational Science…

Scientific processes rely on software as an important tool for data acquisition, analysis, and discovery. Over the years sustainable software development practices have made progress in being considered as an integral component of research.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Akash Dhruv , Anshu Dubey

Exascale computers will offer transformative capabilities to combine data-driven and learning-based approaches with traditional simulation applications to accelerate scientific discovery and insight. These software combinations and…

The ability to repeat the experiments from a research study and obtain similar results is a corner stone in experiment-based scientific discovery. This essential feature has been often ignored by the distributed computing and networking…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Thierry Rakotoarivelo , Guillaume Jourjon , Olivier Mehani , Maximilian Ott , Mike Zink

Small to medium-scale data science experiments often rely on research software developed ad-hoc by individual scientists or small teams. Often there is no time to make the research software fast, reusable, and open access. The consequence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Moritz Schubotz , Ankit Satpute , Andre Greiner-Petter , Akiko Aizawa , Bela Gipp

With recent increasing computational and data requirements of scientific applications, the use of large clustered systems as well as distributed resources is inevitable. Although executing large applications in these environments brings…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-30 Alexandru Costan , Florin Pop , Corina Stratan , Ciprian Dobre , Catalin Leordeanu , Valentin Cristea

Cloud computing provides a great opportunity for scientists, as it enables large-scale experiments that cannot are too long to run on local desktop machines. Cloud-based computations can be highly parallel, long running and data-intensive,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Maria Spichkova , Heinz W. Schmidt , Ian E. Thomas , Iman I. Yusuf , Steve Androulakis , Grischa R. Meyer

Reproducibility of computational studies is a hallmark of scientific methodology. It enables researchers to build with confidence on the methods and findings of others, reuse and extend computational pipelines, and thereby drive scientific…

Scientific workflows automate the analysis of large-scale scientific data, fostering the reuse of data processing operators as well as the reproducibility and traceability of analysis results. In exploratory research, however, workflows are…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Sebastian Pohl , Nourhan Elfaramawy , Kedi Cao , Birte Kehr , Matthias Weidlich

Reproducibility in research remains hindered by complex systems involving data, models, tools, and algorithms. Studies highlight a reproducibility crisis due to a lack of standardized reporting, code and data sharing, and rigorous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Venkat S. Malladi , Maria Yazykova , Olesya Melnichenko , Yulia Dubinina

Improved software discovery is a prerequisite for greater software reuse: after all, if someone cannot find software for a particular task, they cannot reuse it. Understanding people's approaches and preferences when they look for software…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Michael Hucka , Matthew J. Graham

Challenges related to development, deployment, and maintenance of reusable software for science are becoming a growing concern. Many scientists' research increasingly depends on the quality and availability of software upon which their…

In recent years there has been widespread concern in the scientific community over a reproducibility crisis. Among the major causes that have been identified is statistical: In many scientific research the statistical analysis (including…

Applications · Statistics 2017-08-17 Norman Matloff , Reed Davis , Laurel Beckett , Paul Thompson

Science has a data management problem, as well as a project management problem. While industrial-grade data science teams have embraced the agile mindset, and adopted or created all kind of tools to create reproducible workflows,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Juan Julián Merelo-Guervós , Mario García-Valdez

Cloud computing has permeated into the information technology industry in the last few years, and it is emerging nowadays in scientific environments. Science user communities are demanding a broad range of computing power to satisfy the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Álvaro López García , Enol Fernández-del-Castillo , Pablo Orviz Fernández , Isabel Campos Plasencia , Jesús Marco de Lucas

In the world of science new technology have opened up the possibility to rely on advanced computational methods and models to conduct and produce scientific research. An important aspect of scientific and business workflows is provenance -…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Ludwig Stage , Julia Dahlberg , Dimka Karastoyanova

Software Engineering Discipline is constantly achieving momentum from past two decades. In last decade, remarkable progress has been observed. New process models that are introduced from time to time in order to keep pace with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Sukhpal Singh , Inderveer Chana