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SUMMARY:I'm the repro man: a rant and some incremental improvements on rep
 roducibility in systems research - Tristan Henderson (University of St And
 rews)
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:The scientific method is increasingly recognised as being rele
 vant to\ncomputer science. Indeed some have claimed that computational sci
 ence\nis the third methodological branch of science. Paramount to the\nsci
 entific method is the ability to reproduce experiments. In computer\nscien
 ce reproducibility can be characterised as providing sufficient\ndetail ab
 out code\, method and data. Unfortunately such details are\noften not prov
 ided.  In this talk we look at two case studies:\nmeasurement studies of o
 nline social networks and wireless networks.\nWe examine the current state
  of sharing methods and data\, discuss a\nsystem that we have developed to
  help document and share online social\nnetwork research methodologies\, o
 ur efforts in helping share data in\nwireless networks\, and outstanding c
 hallenges in helping make computer\nscience research more reproducible.\n\
 nBio: Tristan Henderson is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Recruitment i
 n\nthe School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. When\nn
 ot neck high in undergraduate applications\, he attempts to do the odd\nsp
 ot of teaching and even some research. His research aims to better\nunders
 tand user behaviour and use this to build improved systems\; an\napproach 
 which has involved measurements and testbeds for networked\ngames\, wirele
 ss networks\, mobile sensors\, smartphones\, online social\nnetworks and o
 pportunistic networks. He runs the CRAWDAD data archive\n(http://crawdad.o
 rg)\, the world's largest wireless network data\narchive\, with over 110 d
 atasets and tools in use by over 6000 users\nfrom 101 countries. Tristan h
 as degrees in both dismal and aspiring\nsciences (Economics and CS) from C
 ambridge and UCL. For more\ninformation\, see http://tristan.host.cs.st-an
 drews.ac.uk/\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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