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A scientific basis for Open Source Software

A scientific basis for Open Source Software

Posted May 21, 2012 16:06 UTC (Mon) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432)
In reply to: A scientific basis for Open Source Software by pboddie
Parent article: A scientific basis for Open Source Software

> I'm not convinced that I've seen a paper outside the computer science
> domain that fully describes a non-trivial algorithm, although I'll freely
> admit that I don't read that many papers.

I've never read a paper IN the computer/software engineering field that described algorithms and models in sufficient detail to reproduce the results. It's really quite sad. I worked with some higher-ups at IBM for a while who told me they reject 99% of the research papers outright and rarely reproduce the results of the 1% of ideas they do try.


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