New Report "The Role and Relevance of Experimentation in Informatics"
A new Informatics Europe report has been recently published: "The Role and Relevance of Experimentation in Informatics".
The report, edited by Prof. Jan van Leeuwen, University of Utrecht and Prof. Viola Schiaffonati, Politecnico di Milano, is based on the contributions to the Workshop on the Role and Relevance of Experimentation in Informatics, collocated with the 8th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2012), November 19th 2012, Barcelona.
What does it mean to do experiments in informatics? Does it make sense to 'import' traditional principles of experimentation from classical disciplines into the field of computing and information processing? How should experiments be documented? These and other questions and recommendations are carefully discussed in the report.
The report can be downloaded here and is also available at the Reports page of our website.