FFCSA - Finite Field Constructions, Search, and Algorithms

The research of G. Gong and M. Aagaard were supported by NSERC Canada and the researchof N. Zidaric by NSERC Canada and NWO Netherlands through the PROACT project. The research of O.Konovalov was supported by the OpenDreamKit Horizon 2020 European Research Infrastructures projectIn this work we present the new GAP package FFCSA - Finite Field Constructions, Search, and Algorithms. It was designed to enable Design Space Exploration for hardware implementations of cryptographic algorithms defined over finite fields. FFCSA constructions and searches are used to produce the design space, and FFCSA algorithms, parameterized for the current candidate field, are used to generate expressions needed for implementation in hardware.PostprintPeer reviewe

olexandr-konovalov/Kaplansky-units-counterexample: v1.1.0

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Don't mention it: An approach to assess challenges to using software mentions for citation and discoverability research

Datasets collecting software mentions from scholarly publications can potentially be used for research into the software that has been used in the published research, as well as into the practice of software citation. Recently, new software mention datasets with different characteristics have been published. We present an approach to assess the usability of such datasets for research on research software. Our approach includes sampling and data preparation, manual annotation for quality and mention characteristics, and annotation analysis. We applied it to two software mention datasets for evaluation based on qualitative observation. Doing this, we were able to find challenges to working with the selected datasets to do research. Main issues refer to the structure of the dataset, the quality of the extracted mentions (54% and 23% of mentions respectively are not to software), and software accessibility. While one dataset does not provide links to mentioned software at all, the other does so in a way that can impede quantitative research endeavors: (1) Links may come from different sources and each point to different software for the same mention. (2) The quality of the automatically retrieved links is generally poor (in our sample, 65.4% link the wrong software). (3) Links exist only for a small subset (in our sample, 20.5%) of mentions, which may lead to skewed or disproportionate samples. However, the greatest challenge and underlying issue in working with software mention datasets is the still suboptimal practice of software citation: Software should not be mentioned, it should be cited following the software citation principles

Glosario:A multilingual glossary for computing and data science terms (Ukrainian section)

The output of the project "Adding Ukrainian translations to Glosario - an open source glossary of terms used in computing and data science" undertaken under the Summer Teams Enterprise Programme 2024 (https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ceed/summer-enterprise-programme/). We thank the Glosario team for the development and maintenance of the Glosario infrastructure, and the technical support

rse-standrewscs/gap-binder-template: Template for publishing reproducible GAP experiments in Jupyter notebooks runnable on Binder (v1.1.0)

Template for publishing reproducible GAP experiments in Jupyter notebooks runnable on Binde

Glosario:A multilingual glossary for computing and data science terms (Ukrainian section)

The output of the project "Adding Ukrainian translations to Glosario - an open source glossary of terms used in computing and data science" undertaken under the Summer Teams Enterprise Programme 2024 (https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ceed/summer-enterprise-programme/). We thank the Glosario team for the development and maintenance of the Glosario infrastructure, and the technical support