As I think about publishing the results from one or more system studies, I am wondering about what information is necessary to reproduce the published results.
This area of concern is based on 10 to 15 years of reading and trying to reproduce material published in the INCOSE Journal and other hard copy print journals. One significant area is the lack of published data sets or the availability of data sets in executable form.
As the structural modeling software starts to mature, I hope to publish results that allow other interested researchers the opportunity to replicate the results with the minimum amount of effort.
In my opinion, many days have been wasted analyzing published graphs and charts to discover that there are fundamental errors in the graphs or the accompanying text. My goal is to provide open source software, open source data sets as well as detailed instructions covering the methods used in producing the results.
Any further aspects that should be taken into consideration as we plan for the production of scientific studies that are designed to be easy to replicate?
What should be provided besides text, graphics and equations?
What form and format should the text, graphics and equations express to facilitate the process of replication?
Take care, be good to yourself and have fun,
Joe
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Joe Simpson
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”
George Bernard Shaw