Quirk, J. J., “Computational Science: Same Old Silence, Same Old Mistakes,
Something More is Needed ...” In, Adaptive Mesh Refinement –
Theory and Applications, edited by T. Plewa, T. Linde, and V. G. Weirs,
Springer-Verlag, 2005. pp. 3-28. ISBN 978-3-540-21147-1
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Abstract:
Today it is fashionable to portray computation as the third leg
of science, the other legs being the classical disciplines
of experiment and theory. But in the rush to promote computational
science's strengths, a blind eye is often turned to its weaknesses.
This paper aims to increase awareness of a number of key deficiencies
in the hope that the community can galvanize itself and tackle
the identified issues head on. Specifically, the thesis
to be developed here is that software automation could be used to
package worked examples --- in the form of
dynamic electronic documents --- that would allow
interested parties, from different backgrounds,
to communicate more effectively than at present.
The hope, by making work easily repeatable, is that
practical expertise can be properly archived.
Currently, many avoidable mistakes are repeated
time and time again as the mistakes do not
lend themselves for journal publication and so go unrecorded.
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