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jtien@verdi.eng.uci.edu (Joe Tien) writes:

>How should I list software packages/programs I used in my research as
>references?  They are even more significant than the papers I read in
>terms of getting actual results and stuff.

Usually, you describe your experiments (and stuff) in a section called
something like "Experiments" or "Emperical Results".  As part of the
description of the experiments, you mention all the relevant software.

For example, if you're collecting SPECmarks, you should describe the
machines, the compilers, the compiler flags, and the exact verion of
the SPEC programs -- enough so others could reproduce your results.

Some tools, e.g., gprof, are described in papers or technical reports.
Try and cite the papers if possible, since not every reader (or
referee!) will be familiar with all the tools available on your
system.

You don't bother mentioning that you used gnu to type up shell scripts
run on bash or that you typeset the paper using LaTeX; those details
just aren't relevant.

Preston Briggs