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The quality of the data in spreadsheets is less discussed than the structural integrity of the formulas. Yet it is an area of great interest to the owners and users of the spreadsheet. This paper provides an overview of Information Quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-09-23 Patrick O'Beirne

Almost no modern software system is written from scratch, and developers are required to effectively learn to use third-party libraries or software services. Thus, many practitioners and researchers have looked for ways to create effective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Daye Nam , Andrew Macvean , Brad Myers , Bogdan Vasilescu

Modeling and documentation are two essential ingredients for the engineering discipline of software development. During the last twenty years a wide variety of description and modeling techniques as well as document formats has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Manfred Broy , Franz Huber , Barbara Paech , Bernhard Rumpe , Katharina Spies

Software technologies are used by programmers with diverse backgrounds. To fulfill programmers' need for information, enthusiasts contribute numerous learning resources that vary in style and content, which act as documentation for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Deeksha M. Arya , Jin L. C. Guo , Martin P. Robillard

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

A vital component of trust and transparency in intelligent systems built on machine learning and artificial intelligence is the development of clear, understandable documentation. However, such systems are notorious for their complexity and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-18 David Piorkowski , Daniel González , John Richards , Stephanie Houde

Document summarization is a task to shorten texts into concise and informative summaries. This paper introduces a novel dataset designed for summarizing multiple scientific articles into a section of a survey. Our contributions are: (1)…

This report documents the results found through surveys and interviews on how visualizations help the employees in their workspace. The objectives of this study were to get in-depth knowledge on what prepares an employee to have the right…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Rajath Chikkatur Srinivasa , Supriya Arun , Lauren James , Ying Zhu

The purpose of this short paper is to identify the mathematical essence of the superiorization methodology. This methodology has been developed in recent years while attempting to solve specific application-oriented problems. Consequently,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Gabor T. Herman

Spreadsheets are widely used in industry, because they are flexible and easy to use. Often, they are even used for business-critical applications. It is however difficult for spreadsheet users to correctly assess the maintainability of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-31 Henk Vlootman , Felienne Hermans

We developed an internet-based questionnaire on spreadsheet use that we administered to a large number of users in several companies and organizations to document how spreadsheets are currently being developed and used in business. In this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Kenneth R. Baker , Stephen G. Powell , Barry Lawson , Lynn Foster-Johnson

Computational research and data analytics increasingly relies on complex ecosystems of open source software (OSS) "libraries" -- curated collections of reusable code that programmers import to perform a specific task. Software documentation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-01 R. Stuart Geiger , Nelle Varoquaux , Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse , Chris Holdgraf

Visualizing spreadsheet content provides analytic insight and visual validation of large amounts of spreadsheet data. Oculus Excel Visualizer is a point and click data visualization experiment which directly visualizes Excel data and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Richard Brath , Michael Peters

The use of spreadsheets is widespread. Be it in business, finance, engineering or other areas, spreadsheets are created for their flexibility and ease to quickly model a problem. Very often they evolve from simple prototypes to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-30 José Pedro Correia , Miguel A. Ferreira

ML/AI is the field of computer science and computer engineering that arguably received the most attention and funding over the last decade. Data is the key element of ML/AI, so it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that users are…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Marco Rondina , Antonio Vetrò , Juan Carlos De Martin

While digital assistants are increasingly used to help with various productivity tasks, less attention has been paid to employing them in the domain of business documents. To build an agent that can handle users' information needs in this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Farnaz Jahanbakhsh , Elnaz Nouri , Robert Sim , Ryen W. White , Adam Fourney

Mathematical proofs are often said to justify their conclusions by indicating the existence of a corresponding formal derivation. We argue that this widespread view relies on an under-examined notion of correspondence, or what it means for…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Simon DeDeo , Eamon Duede

Automatic Static Analysis Tools (ASATs) are widely used by software developers to diffuse and enforce coding practices. Yet, we know little about the documentation of ASATs, despite it being critical to learn about the coding practices in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Corentin Latappy , Thomas Degueule , Jean-Rémy Falleri , Romain Robbes , Xavier Blanc , Cédric Teyton

This short paper gives an introduction to a research project to analyze how digital documents are structured and described. Using a phenomenological approach, this research will reveal common patterns that are used in data, independent from…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Jakob Voß

Software architecture knowledge transfer is essential for software development, but related documentation is often incomplete or ambiguous, making oral explanations a common means. Our broader aim is to explore how such explanations might…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Satrio Adi Rukmono , Filip Zamfirov , Lina Ochoa , Floris Pex , Michel Chaudron