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In this study, we explored an approach to automate the review process of software design documents by using LLM. We first analyzed the review methods of design documents and organized 11 review perspectives. Additionally, we analyzed the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Takasaburo Fukuda , Takao Nakagawa , Keisuke Miyazaki , Susumu Tokumoto

Among the multiple causes of high error rates in spreadsheets, lack of proper training and of deep understanding of the computational model upon which spreadsheet computations rest might not be the least issue. The paper addresses this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Karin Hodnigg , Markus Clermont , Roland T. Mittermeir

In the realm of Business Process Management (BPM), process modeling plays a crucial role in translating complex process dynamics into comprehensible visual representations, facilitating the understanding, analysis, improvement, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Humam Kourani , Alessandro Berti , Daniel Schuster , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Large language models are deep learning models with a large number of parameters. The models made noticeable progress on a large number of tasks, and as a consequence allowing them to serve as valuable and versatile tools for a diverse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Maxim Vidgof , Stefan Bachhofner , Jan Mendling

All software development processes include steps where several alternatives induce a choice, a decision-making. Sometimes, methodologies offer a way to make decisions. However, in a lot of cases, the arguments to carry out the decision are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Elena Kornyshova , Rebecca Deneckere , Camille Salinesi

Spreadsheets are one of the most widely used programming environments, and are widely deployed in domains like finance where errors can have catastrophic consequences. We present a static analysis specifically designed to find spreadsheet…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Daniel W. Barowy , Emery D. Berger , Benjamin Zorn

In the last couple of years we have witnessed an enormous increase of machine learning (ML) applications. More and more program functions are no longer written in code, but learnt from a huge amount of data samples using an ML algorithm.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Peter Kriens , Tim Verbelen

EuSpRIG concerns direct researchers to revisit spreadsheet education, taking into account error auditing tools, checklists, and good practices. This paper aims at elaborating principles to design a spreadsheet curriculum. It mainly focuses…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-09-16 Francoise Tort

A spreadsheet is remarkably flexible in representing various forms of structured data, but the individual cells have no knowledge of the larger structures of which they may form a part. This can hamper comprehension and increase formula…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Alan Hall , Michel Wermelinger , Tony Hirst , Santi Phithakkitnukoon

Dimensions are an integral part of many models we use every day. Without thinking about it, we frequently use the time dimension: many financial and accounting spreadsheets have columns representing months or years. Representing a second…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Paul Mireault

With the rapid development of the large model domain, research related to fine-tuning has concurrently seen significant advancement, given that fine-tuning is a constituent part of the training process for large-scale models. Data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Runyuan Ma , Wei Li , Fukai Shang

Spreadsheets are widely used within companies and often form the basis for business decisions. Numerous cases are known where incorrect information in spreadsheets has lead to incorrect decisions. Such cases underline the relevance of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Bas Jansen

Tables, typically two-dimensional and structured to store large amounts of data, are essential in daily activities like database queries, spreadsheet manipulations, web table question answering, and image table information extraction.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Weizheng Lu , Jing Zhang , Ju Fan , Zihao Fu , Yueguo Chen , Xiaoyong Du

Spreadsheets often need changing in ways made tedious and risky by Excel. For example: simultaneously altering many tables' size, orientation, and position; inserting cross-tabulations; moving data between sheets; splitting and merging…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Jocelyn Paine , Emre Tek , Duncan Williamson

Spreadsheets are widely used for data exploration. Since spreadsheet systems have limited capabilities, users often need to load spreadsheets to other data science environments to perform advanced analytics. However, current approaches for…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Felix Henze , Haralampos Gavriilidis , Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou , Volker Markl

This paper presents the arguments and supporting business metrics for Enterprise Spreadsheet Management to be seen as a necessary good. These arguments are divided into a summary of external business drivers that make it necessary and the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Ralph Baxter

Research on formulae production in spreadsheets has established the practice as high risk yet unrecognised as such by industry. There are numerous software applications that are designed to audit formulae and find errors. However these are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-13 Simon Thorne , David Ball , Zoe Lawson

Query processing over big data is ubiquitous in modern clouds, where the system takes care of picking both the physical query execution plans and the resources needed to run those plans, using a cost-based query optimizer. A good cost…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Tarique Siddiqui , Alekh Jindal , Shi Qiao , Hiren Patel , Wangchao le

Automated planning is concerned with developing efficient algorithms to generate plans or sequences of actions to achieve a specific goal in a given environment. Emerging Large Language Models (LLMs) can answer questions, write high-quality…

The humble spreadsheet is the most widely used data storage, manipulation and modelling tool. Its ubiquity over the past 30 years has seen its successful application in every area of life. Surprisingly the spreadsheet has remained…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-01 David Birch , David Lyford-Smith , Yike Guo