Abstract
Software and other digital artifacts are amongst the most valuable contributions of computer science. Yet our conferences treat these mostly as second-class artifacts---especially conferences in the software sciences, which ought to know better. This article argues for elevating these other artifacts by making them part of the evaluation process for papers, and reports on experience from an iteration of an Artifact Evaluation Committee for ESEC/FSE 2011.
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