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Suggestion from Anant Sahai

As a potential feature request, I think that there should be some 
discussion with the Pub committee regarding the need for a long-lived 
archive of source-code/data corresponding to plots and tables in 
published transactions papers. The ideal here is "reproducible research" 
as promoted by Donoho (among others) for more than a decade, and 
recently promoted by an article in the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Signal Processing magazine:



Right now, we have fragmented repositories being put up by various 
groups like:



But as the following paper from the economics community suggests, this 
is a problem that journals (scholarly societies) need to address.



Our society had taken the lead a few years back in promoting Arxiv.Org 
for preprints, and a decade or so back in getting all papers available 
online. Maybe we need to push for having our papers be reproducible. It 
is likely less of a burden for us since so many of our papers are 
largely theoretical. We basically need a way to have trusted 
"Supplemental Information" that accompanies the paper on Xplore. In 
Nature & Science for example, such supplemental information is routinely 
present and often many times the length of the published paper.

Down the line, this could even save us money if we could use this to 
somehow make papers shorter. But that is not the main point.