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Text-sources for the publication of Rubi in the Journal of Open-Source Software
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Clarification on authorship #3

Closed rljacobson closed 5 years ago

rljacobson commented 5 years ago

Could you clarify the role of Nasser M. Abbasi in authoring this submission? This author does not appear to be listed as an author in the associated repositories.

halirutan commented 5 years ago

@rljacobson In fact, Nasser does not appear in the commits of the software. Nevertheless, he is the one who runs the various independent integration tests for Rubi to compare it with other CAS. This is a very time-consuming job as he is trying to compare the built-in integrators of Mathematica, Maple, Maxima, Fricas, Sympy, and Giac/Xcas with the results of Rubi's Mathematica implementation.

The whole suite runs several weeks, and through Nasser, we try to maintain a fair comparison between systems. This is indeed harder as one might expect. Only for Rub, Mathematica, and Maple we can create the detailed grading results as outlined on page 6 in this test-report from Nassers page. The hard part is to verify if a solution that is different from the optimal solution is indeed a correct antiderivative.

With this work, Nasser is highly intertwined with Rubi and ensures its quality. This is the reason why he is listed on https://github.com/RuleBasedIntegration as contributor and we believe he has earned authorship for the current manuscript.

rljacobson commented 5 years ago

I agree that including him as an author is completely appropriate. Thank you for the detailed explanation.