On June 27-29, 2023 we will convene the first ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP) in Santa Cruz, CA on the University of California Santa Cruz campus. ACM REP is affiliated with REPETO and the ACM Emergent Interest Group for Reproducibility and Replicability (EIGREP). It is the first forum dedicated to advancing the practices of reproducibility and replicability in computing disciplines within computer science and computational aspects of other scientific disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, genomics, and geosciences. Chaired by Philippe Bonnet (ITU Copenhagen, EIGREP chair) and Carlos Maltzahn (UC Santa Cruz, REPETO co-PI), the conference will take place in the unique Cowell Ranch Hay Barn overlooking the beautiful Monterey Bay. The 3-day event will be hybrid and strives for an enjoyable experience for local as well as remote participants.
The program is organized by Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Labs) and Tanu Malik (DePaul University) who have assembled an outstanding program committee. There are currently two calls for participation open: a call for papers and a call for tutorials. Topics of interest are wide ranging and cover reproducibility and replicability in practice, the authoring and sharing of reproducibility artifacts, experiences in using artifacts in research and in the classroom, programs designed to create an exchange for reproducibility artifacts (e.g. the Summer of Reproducibility), and reproducibility in software packaging.
ACM REP evolved from the International Workshop on Practical Reproducible Evaluation of Computer Systems (P-RECS) which was started by Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn, and Jay Lofstead in 2018 in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC, co-located with the International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), and followed by four editions in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, all co-located with HPDC. Since 2019 P-RECS has been the annual forum for EIGREP.
The deadline for submissions is February 6, 2023, notifications of acceptance for papers will go out on May 12, 2023 and for tutorials on May 17, 2023. Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due on June 1, 2023. The conference is sponsored by the ACM, the Open Source Program Office UC Santa Cruz, the Center for Research in Open Source Software, and industry sponsorships to be determined.
For any questions about the conference or if you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact Carlos Maltzahn and Stephanie Lieggi.
See you there!
