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The Electronic Tool Integration Platform

The International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) offers a concrete technology transfer support via the related Electronic Tool Integration (ETI) platform, which enables users to experiment with tools, both in isolation and in combination, in order to gain practical experience with the concepts contained in the journal papers.
The ETI platform is intended to serve as a Web-based active repository that enables users to experiment with tools on-line. It is designed to allow this experimentation with minimum expertise; it is intended to enable newcomers to easily orient themselves in the fast growing panorama of tools.
ETI is not a distribution platform; tool builders whose contributions are incorporated into the ETI will retain full legal rights and also responsibilities for their software.
A Special Section devoted to ETI provides a fairly detailed description of the platform, spanning the philosophy which led us to its creation, architectural and organizational concerns, the concrete description of the integration of the (sample) tools of this issue, and a sample user session.
Tool builders interested in publishing their software via the ETI should submit a description of their software, and the software itself, to the ETI co-ordinator. The tool will be reviewed in a manner similar to that used for paper submissions, and upon acceptance it will be incorporated into the platform in cooperation with the ETI team.
Typically, integrated tools should also have a corresponding paper in the journal describing their purpose and use in a way accessible to non-specialists.

The ETI Online Service's Functional Characteristics

The ETI online service plays a `public service' role, offering a unique and varied profile of functionalities. It is in fact at the same time