Artifact Evaluation Deadlines:
Artifact Submission Deadline:Monday, July 9th (AOE)
Artifact Technical Clarification:Monday, July 16th
Artifact Decisions Announced:Wednesday, July 18th
PACT Camera Ready Due:Friday, July 20th

PACT AE Chairs:
Leonel Sousa (University of Lisbon)
Trevor E. Carlson (National University of Singapore)

Artifact Evaluation for PACT 2018

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Authors of accepted PACT 2018 papers are invited to formally submit their supporting materials for Artifact Evaluation. Submission is voluntary. The Artifact Evaluation process is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess if artifacts supporting the work described in the papers are available and functional, and (some of) experimental results are reproducible.

If you have any questions, please check AE FAQs and do not hesitate to contact AE chairs!

How to submit

You should prepare your artifacts for submission using the following guidelines. Then, register your submission at the EasyChair - you will be asked to submit your paper title, author list, artifact abstract with a special checklist (to help select appropriate evaluators), PDF of your paper with an artifact appendix describing how to access and validate your artifacts, and describe possible conflicts of interests. Please, do not forget to provide a list of hardware, software, benchmark and data set dependencies in your artifact abstract - this is essential to find appropriate evaluators!

Reviewing process

Your artifacts will be reviewed according to the following guidelines. The papers that successfully go through AE will receive a set of ACM badges of approval printed on the papers themselves (will be added by ACM to camera-ready papers) and available as meta information in the ACM Digital Library (it is now possible to search for papers with specific badges in ACM DL). Authors of such papers will have an option to include Artifact Appendix to the final paper (up to 2 pages). Authors are also encouraged (though not obliged) to make their artifacts publicly available upon publication of the proceedings.

Feedback

We consider Artifact Evaluation as a continuous learning curve - our eventual goal is to develop a common methodology for experiment sharing and evaluation in computer system's research. Therefore, if you have questions, comments and suggestions on how to improve artifact submission, reviewing, customization and reuse, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the AE steering committee!