On The Repeatability of Experiments

As someone with an experimental background, I have found this initiative by the organizers of PODS/SIGMOD quite interesting.

In their page about guidelines for research papers, the program committee not only present the format guideline, but also a set of steps to help the committee to assess the "repeatability level" of an experimental research.

From their page:

...
we attempt to establish that the code developed by the 
authors exists, runs correctly on well-defined inputs, 
and performs in a manner compatible with that presented 
in the paper.
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