News: Executable Papers – improving the article format in computer science

In 2011, Elsevier launched the Executable Papers Grand Challenge, looking to the computer science community to address the question of how to replicate computational results within the confines of the research article. The first-place winner, the Collage Authoring Environment, is now launching a pilot special issue on 3D Object Retrieval with the journal Computers & Graphics, showcasing executable research results in articles published on ScienceDirect.