Track D: System & Data (Chair: Florian Rabe)

The systems and data track provides a forum to publish digital resources whose value cannot be adequately represented by a printed paper alone. It aims at an exchange of ideas between developers and users in any area related to the CICM conferences.

Scope

Systems can be for example

• stand-alone systems
• plugins, libraries, or extensions of existing systems
• integrations of existing systems.

• formalizations
• harvests or new processing of existing data
• case studies, test cases, or benchmark suites for systems.

Evaluation Criteria

The primary evaluation criteria are the

1. novelty of the system/data,
2. value of the system/data
3. usability of the system/data
4. clarity of the accompanying paper
.

Detailed remarks regarding the above evaluation criteria

1. Resources are considered novel if they are not the primary focus of a previous archival publication or a concurrent submission. They may also be considered novel if they are substantially more mature than precursors that supported previous archival publications.
   It is possible to supplement a regular submission in another track with a system/data submission if both are valuable independently and can be reviewed and published separately. Authors must point this out in both submissions.
2. The judgement of the value of a submission is at the discretion of the PC.
3. Reviewers must be able to try out and use all systems/data conveniently. In particular,
   • the system/data must be available online with clear instructions for download, installation, etc.,
   • the prerequisites (e.g., the system to process the data) must be clearly described,
   • unusual prerequisites and non-default configurations should be bundled,
   • resources should be open source
4. Authors must accompany their submission with a printable paper that will appear in the proceedings. This paper should outline the motivation, design decisions, and applications of the system/data. It must include the online reference to the system/data, and examples, screenshots, etc. given in the paper should be consistent with the digital resource.