CCT Technical Report Series

Introduction to the CCT Technical Report Series

The Center for Computation & Technology Technical Report (CCT-TR) series provides an effective method for documenting research and development throughout CCT, for both internal and external viewing.

The motivations for the technical series include:

• Increasing the visibility and outreach of CCT.
• Allowing the publication of technical details that may not be relevant for a journal article.
• Publishing documentation for software produced at CCT.
• Providing a mechanism for short-term visitors to CCT to publish the results of their research here.
• Encouraging publications by students that may not yet be at the necessary research level for journal publication.
• Publishing detailed results about benchmarking, profiling, code assurance, and testing etc.
• Publishing computational science results that may not give new scientific insight but may be interesting for the community.

It is important to note that this series only supplements and does not replace official journal and other forms of publication. The CCT-TR series offers a mechanism to formally publish papers (that can be any length) before officially publishing them either in a journal or through a peer-reviewed conference.

Where appropriate, CCT-TR publications can be accompanied by appropriate additional material, such as data files, source code, or movies.

The CCT-TR publications will be available online at www.cct.lsu.edu/CCT-TR/. Each publication has a unique number of the form, CCT-TR-yyyy-nnnn, where yyyy indicates the year, and nnnn indicates the TR number within that year.

Submitting a Document for the CCT Technical Report Series

Submissions may be made by any student, postdoc, staff, visitor, or faculty member formally associated with CCT. Students should attain the approval of their supervisor at CCT before submission. Submissions are made via the CCT Web pages at www.cct.lsu.edu/user/staffresources/trs/submission.php, as a single PDF document using any appropriate standard format. All submission information should be in plain text (no LaTeX, please). Any accompanying material should be provided as a single TAR file whose contents are all referenced from within the submitted document. TAR files have a size limitation of 7MB. Each submitted report will be given a unique ID like CCT-TR-yyyy-P-nnnn (P here represents pending for review).

Review of Articles Submitted to the Technical Report Series

Articles submitted to the CCT Technical Report series are internally reviewed by senior CCT research scientists before publication. If an article is deemed unacceptable for publication in the CCT-TR series, comments on this decision will be supplied to the authors. CCT-TR articles must follow the standards of scientific integrity. They should be well written, grammatically correct, and adequately formatted to any appropriate standard format. Once an article is accepted, it will be assigned a CCT-TR number and gets listed on the CCT-TR webpage where everyone can view it.

What Should be Submitted as a CCT-TR?

• Complete drafts, ready for circulation, of journal papers that will ultimately be submitted as official archival journal articles.
• Extended drafts of journal or conference articles containing a great deal more detail, additional results, explanations, and so on.
• Articles that contain ideas or preliminary results that the author wants to have officially documented.
• Results that the authors wants to release early or make available before the typically long journal review process.
• Good quality student papers. This includes top quality student projects from classes.
• Documentation about projects or labs that wouldn't otherwise be available.
• Documentation about either hardware or software systems that were designed and built here at CCT.
• That long lost paper, almost finished but never submitted either to a conference or journal.
• Long articles that perhaps are not of journal quality, but that are still good and should be published in some form. This might include, for example, extended experimental evidence for a phenomenon that is well known, but that might be useful to have available nonetheless.
• Course-related materials that are typically distributed to students.

Citing the CCT Technical Report Series

Articles from the series can be cited for example as: Authors, Title, CCT Technical Report Series, CCT-TR-yyyy-nnnn, yyyy.

URLs for the series will be of the format: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/CCT-TR/CCT-TR-yyyy-nnnn/

Questions about the CCT TR Series can be directed to the general editor.