Those seeking to reproduce a computational experiment often need to manually look at the code to see how to build necessary libraries, configure parameters, find data, and invoke the experiment; it is not automatic. Automatic reproducibility is a more stringent goal, but working towards it would benefit the community. This work discusses a machine-readable language for specifying how to execute a computational experiment. We invite interested stakeholders to discuss this language at https://github.com/charmoniumQ/execution-description .
@article{arxiv.2307.11383,
title = {Wanted: standards for automatic reproducibility of computational experiments},
author = {Samuel Grayson and Reed Milewicz and Joshua Teves and Daniel S. Katz and Darko Marinov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11383},
year = {2023}
}