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@techreport{
2000-TR4CBL-02-Brglez,
author = "F. Brglez and H. Lavana and D. Ghosh and
          B. Allen and R. Casstevens and J. Harlow III and
			       R. Kurve and S. Page  and M. Stallmann", 
title  = "{OpenExperiment:
           A Configurable Environment for Collaborative
           Experimental Design and Execution on the Internet }",
institution = "{CBL, CS Dept., NCSU, Box 8206,
                Raleigh, NC 27695}",
number = "2000-TR4CBL-02-Brglez",
month  = "March",
year   = "2000",
abstract = "{
{\em OpenExperiment} is a user-configurable open environment that supports 
collaborative experimental design and execution on the 
Internet. The environment is created with few simple configurations 
of a generic client. The platform-specific
executable client requires no installation and is based on the
client-server/peer-to-peer OmniFlow/OmniDesk architecture,  described elsewhere. 
~~This paper introduces the OpenExperiment environment in the context
of graph  problems and two related objectives of experimental design: 
(1) distinguishability of graph equivalence classes, and 
(2) measuring the performance of algorithms that solve NP-hard problems 
on such classes. 
The key challenges addressed in the paper relate to task flows and 
data structures that allow any participant:
(a) to create and evaluate a series of repeatable experiments,
(b) to share the flows and related experimental results for 
independent re-execution and evaluation by peers, 
(c) to invoke automated publication of final results and summaries under a 
project-specific URL.
~~The OpenExperiment environment has been tested with two
experimental design projects in two very different domains: 
(1) circuit classes
and variable ordering  algorithms to minimize ROBDD (reduced-order binary
decision diagram) size, and  (2) circuit classes and algorithms to
minimize the crossing number in 2-layer  graph embeddings. The
experiments in the latter involve a total of  eight  distributed
participants under four operating systems.  See {\em
http://www.cbl.ncsu.edu/OpenExperiments/ }for all links to OpenExperiment
data  directories published to date. These and other experimental design
projects are  open to registered participants from anywhere.  
}"
}