Title
A Provenance-Based Infrastructure to Support the Life Cycle of Executable Papers
Abstract
As publishers establish a greater online presence as well as infrastructure to support the distribution of more varied information, the idea of an executable paper that enables greater interaction has developed. An executable paper provides more information for computational experiments and results than the text, tables, and figures of standard papers. Executable papers can bundle computational content that allow readers and reviewers to interact, validate, and explore experiments. By including such content, authors facilitate future discoveries by lowering the barrier to reproducing and extending results. We present an infrastructure for creating, disseminating, and maintaining executable papers. Our approach is rooted in provenance, the documentation of exactly how data, experiments, and results were generated. We seek to improve the experience for everyone involved in the life cycle of an executable paper. The automated capture of provenance information allows authors to easily integrate and update results into papers as they write, and also helps reviewers better evaluate approaches by enabling them to explore experimental results by varying parameters or data. With a provenance-based system, readers are able to examine exactly how a result was developed to better understand and extend published findings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.procs.2011.04.068
Procedia Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
executable paper,reproducibility,provenance,scientific workflows
Online presence management,Data mining,Computer science,Dissemination,Documentation,Executable
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4
1877-0509
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.06
6
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Koop170242.47
Emanuele Santos293952.64
Phillip Mates3432.41
Huy T. Vo4103561.10
Bonnet, P.5681101.43
Bela Bauer6465.00
Brigitte Surer7162.61
Matthias Troyer812019.62
Dean N. Williams910411.36
Joel E. Tohline10225.48
Juliana Freire113956270.89
Cláudio T. Silva125054290.90