Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions

Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions

Scientific code is different from production software. Scientific code, by producing results that are then analyzed and interpreted, participates in the elaboration of scientific conclusions. This imposes specific constraints on the code that are often overlooked in practice. We articulate, with a small example, five characteristics that a scientific code in computational science should possess...

Transforming scientific evidence into better consumer choices

Translational research using evidence-based and comparative effectiveness research continues to evolve, becoming a useful tool in improving informed consent and decision-making in the clinical setting. While in development, emerging technologies, including cellular and molecular biology, are leading to establishing evidence-based dental practices. One emerging technology, which conjoins bench p...

Transforming Execution-Time Boundable Code into Temporally Predictable Code

Traditional Worst-Case Execution-Time (WCET) analysis is very complex. It has to deal with path analysis, to identify and describe the possible execution paths through the code to be analyzed, and it has to model the worst-case timing of the possible paths on the target hardware. The latter is again nontrivial due to interference of modern hardware features like instruction pipelines, caches, a...

Dynamic Re-engineering of Binary Code with Run-time Feedbacks

Dynamic binary translation is the process of translating, modifying and rewriting executable (binary) code from one machine 4 to another at run-time. This process of low-level re-engineering consists of a reverse engineering phase followed by a forward 5 engineering phase. 6 UQDBT, the University of Queensland Dynamic Binary Translator, is a machine-adaptable translator. Adaptability is provide...

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