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Quality is a multidimensional concept that has different meanings in different contexts and perspectives. In the domain of Information system, quality is often understood as the result of an IS development process and as the quality of an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Thanh Thoa Pham Thi , Markus Helfert

Data completeness is an essential aspect of data quality, and has in turn a huge impact on the effective management of companies. For example, statistics are computed and audits are conducted in companies by implicitly placing the strong…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-06-10 Simon Razniewski , Marco Montali , Werner Nutt

There is no denying that spreadsheets have become critical for all operational processes including financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis. Microsoft Excel has essentially become a scratch pad and a data browser that can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-19 Vipin Samar , Sangeeta Patni

In the distributed and dynamic framework of the Web, data quality is a big challenge. The Linked Open Data (LOD) provides an enormous amount of data, the quality of which is difficult to control. Quality is intrinsically a matter of usage,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Jacques Chabin , Mirian Halfeld-Ferrari , Béatrice Markhoff , Thanh Binh Nguyen

Amongst the large number of write-and-throw-away spreadsheets developed for one-time use there is a rather neglected proportion of spreadsheets that are huge, periodically used, and submitted to regular update-cycles like any conventionally…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-05-14 Markus Clermont , Christian Hanin , Roland T. Mittermeir

Data is expanding at an unimaginable rate, and with this development comes the responsibility of the quality of data. Data Quality refers to the relevance of the information present and helps in various operations like decision making and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Sezal Chug , Priya Kaushal , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru , Tavpritesh Sethi

In today's digital age, information systems (IS) are indispensable tools for organizations of all sizes. The quality of these systems, encompassing system, information, and service dimensions, significantly impacts organizational…

Improving data quality in unstructured documents is a long-standing challenge. Unstructured data, especially in textual form, inherently lacks defined semantics, which poses significant challenges for effective processing and for ensuring…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Besat Kassaie , Frank Wm. Tompa

Over the last decades, the amount of data of all kinds available electronically has increased dramatically. Data are accessible through a range of interfaces including Web browsers, database query languages, application-specific interfaces,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Gianluca Colombo , Ettore Colombo , Andrea Bonomi , Alessandro Mosca , Simone Bassis

Quantities are essential in documents to describe factual information. They are ubiquitous in application domains such as finance, business, medicine, and science in general. Compared to other information extraction approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Satya Almasian , Vivian Kazakova , Philip Göldner , Michael Gertz

For today's applied statisticians and data scientists, collaboration is a reality. Statisticians (and data scientists) may collaborate with domain experts across academic fields, industry sectors, and governmental and non-governmental…

Applications · Statistics 2022-09-13 Ilana M. Trumble , Jessica L. Alzen , Leanna L. House , Eric A. Vance

This paper discusses spreadsheets documentation and new means to achieve this end by using Excel's built-in "Comment" function. By structuring comments, they can be used as an essential tool to fully explain spreadsheet. This will greatly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Raymond Payette

High-quality datasets are fundamental to training and evaluating machine learning models, yet their creation-especially with accurate human annotations-remains a significant challenge. Many dataset paper submissions lack originality,…

One of the most significant problems of Big Data is to extract knowledge through the huge amount of data. The usefulness of the extracted information depends strongly on data quality. In addition to the importance, data quality has recently…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Mostafa Mirzaie , Behshid Behkamal , Samad Paydar

Data quality (DQ) and transparency of secondary data are critical factors that delay the adoption of clinical AI models and affect clinician trust in them. Many DQ studies fail to clarify where, along the lifecycle, quality checks occur,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Melinda Wassell , Kerryn Butler-Henderson , Karin Verspoor

With the increasing adoption and growth of the Linked Open Data cloud [9], with RDFa, Microformats and other ways of embedding data into ordinary Web pages, and with initiatives such as schema.org, the Web is currently being complemented…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Jeremy Debattista , Christoph Lange , Sören Auer

Developing an error-free spreadsheet has been a problem since the beginning of end-user computing. In this paper, we present a methodology that separates the modeling from the implementation. Using proven techniques from Information Systems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Paul Mireault

While high data quality (DQ) is critical for analytics, compliance, and AI performance, data quality management (DQM) remains a complex, resource-intensive, and often manual process. This study investigates the extent to which existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Heidi Carolina Tamm , Anastasija Nikiforova

Spreadsheets are widely used in industry, even for critical business processes. This implies the need for proper risk assessment in spreadsheets to evaluate the reliability and validity of the spreadsheet's outcome. As related research has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Thomas Reschenhofer , Bernhard Waltl , Klym Shumaiev , Florian Matthes

The increasing size and availability of web data make data quality a core challenge in many applications. Principles of data quality are recognized as essential to ensure that data fit for their intended use in operations, decision-making,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Ahmad Assaf , Aline Senart