R. Strijkers, R. Cushing, Dmitry Vasunin
2011
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Abstract
Reproducibility of experiments is considered as one of the main principles of the scientific method. Recent developments in data and computation intensive science, i.e. e-Science, and state of the art in Cloud computing provide the necessary components to preserve data sets and re-run code and software that create research data. The Executable Paper (EP) concept uses state of the art technology to include data sets, code, and software in the electronic publication such that readers can validate the presented results. In this paper we present how to advance current state of the art to preserve, data sets, code, and software that create research data, the basic components of an execution platform to preserve long term compatibility of EP, and we identify a number of issues and challenges in the realization of EP. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.