Abstract :
Results presented in technical papers are often validated or supported by artifacts. Typical artifacts are software, data sets, or detailed experimental descriptions. To reward the effort of creating artifacts, authors of accepted research papers may, if they wish, have their tools, data, or models evaluated by the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC). This effort was initiated at ESEC/FSE 2011 by Shriram Krishnamurthi, Carlo Ghezzi, and Andreas Zeller.
