THE ALGORITHM ANIMATION REPOSITORY
Pierluigi Crescenzi, Nils Faltin, Rudolf Fleischer, Christopher Hundhausen, Stefan Näher, Guido Rößling, John Stasko, Erkki Sutinen · 2002
Introduction As researchers in theoretical or practical computer science, we are used to publishing our results in form of research papers that appear in conference proceedings or journals. Journals are normally considered more prestigious than conference proceedings because their more rigorous refereeing standards presumably guarantee a higher quality of the published research papers. This well-established practice of publishing research results puts real practical researchers whose main interest is to write software at a certain disadvantage. There is no established way to `publish' software (except for describing the software in a companion paper that may be considered publishable) unless you want to go the long way of commercializing your system. But this usually only makes sense for certain large systems. Therefore, all the e#ort that goes into the development of smaller programs is usually not rewarded by the academic community because there is no way to make these little progra