Abstract Requirements

Format

1. Submission of a proposal should be done as an abstract of no more than 2,000 words, in the Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/719435/description#description).
2. From all submissions, a number of finalists will be selected by an international panel of judges.
3. The finalists will be asked to show how their prototype can address the difficulties described in the About the Challenge section of this website and to present their work at the Executable Paper workshop at ICCS in Tsukuba, Japan.
4. The finalists will also be invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science and prominently displayed on Science Direct and the Journal homepage.
5. To apply for the award, all finalists must present an instantiation or prototype presentation of their proposal at ICCS in Tsukuba, Japan, on the 3rd of June, 2011. If needed, travel support may be provided to the finalists.
6. Finalists will be given access to a collection of full-text Elsevier content, either through the SciVerse Developer APIs, or through a full-text XML repository.
7. At the conference awards ceremony, the Judging panel will assign the first place winner and the second and third place runners up.

Visit http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2011/papers/upload.php to submit a paper. Choose Executable Paper Grand Challenge for workshop.

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Evaluation Criteria

Executable papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

1. Project quality: The following factors will be evaluated: whether the idea and objective are clearly defined and the extent to which the issues described in the About the Challenge section of this website are addressed.
2. Usefulness to the user as well as scientific novelty are also critical considerations.
3. Innovation/vision: Evaluation will be focused on the level of innovation compared with the current state-of-the-art in data and software publishing and access.
4. Scope: An important criterion is whether the proposal is applicable to a small or large subgroup of papers in Computer Sciences at large. A brilliant solution for a small domain might be less useful, in the end, than an incremental step in e.g. metadata standards that is applicable over a broader range of areas.
5. Feasibility: The project will be evaluated in terms of the possibility and ease of implementing the proposed solution within a publishing workflow, and the scope and distribution of required software and hardware components. Equally important is whether the executable component can be gotten to run on the platform provided, and the capability to scale up the proposal.

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Dates

1. Abstracts must be submitted by January 15, 2011. Late submissions will not be considered for review.
2. The finalists will be notified of their nominations by February 1st 2011. Server space and content access will be made available from that date.
3. The Executable Paper workshop will be held on June 3rd, 2011.

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Further questions

Further questions pertaining to submission to the Executable Paper Challenge can be addressed to Peter Sloot, p.m.a.sloot@uva.nl (and/or) Rebecca Capone, r.capone@elsevier.com. Progress and information pertaining to the challenge will be found on this website.