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This paper introduces a procedure based on genetic programming to evolve XSLT programs (usually called stylesheets or logicsheets). XSLT is a general purpose, document-oriented functional language, generally used to transform XML documents…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-12-18 Nestor Zorzano , Daniel Merino , J. L. J. Laredo , J. P. Sevilla , Pablo Garcia , J. J. Merelo

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

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

While scaling training compute has led to remarkable improvements in large language models (LLMs), scaling inference compute has not yet yielded analogous gains. We hypothesize that a core missing component is a lack of diverse LLM outputs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Evan Wang , Federico Cassano , Catherine Wu , Yunfeng Bai , Will Song , Vaskar Nath , Ziwen Han , Sean Hendryx , Summer Yue , Hugh Zhang

Spreadsheets are among the most commonly used applications for data management and analysis. Perhaps they are even among the most widely used computer applications of all kinds. They combine in a natural and intuitive way data processing…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Jacek Sroka , Adrian Panasiuk , Krzysztof Stencel , Jerzy Tyszkiewicz

Writing formulas on spreadsheets, such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, is a widespread practice among users performing data analysis. However, crafting formulas on spreadsheets remains a tedious and error-prone task for many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Wei Zhao , Zhitao Hou , Siyuan Wu , Yan Gao , Haoyu Dong , Yao Wan , Hongyu Zhang , Yulei Sui , Haidong Zhang

Because spreadsheets have a large and growing importance in real-world work, their contents need to be controlled and validated. Generally spreadsheets have been difficult to verify, since data and executable information are stored…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-07-22 John C. Nash , Neil Smith , Andy Adler

Spreadsheets are widely used in various fields to do large numerical analysis. While several companies have relied on spreadsheets for decades, data scientists are going in the direction of using scientific programming languages such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Amir Nassereldine , Patrick Chen , Jinjun Xiong

A novel pseudocode search engine is designed to facilitate efficient retrieval and search of academic papers containing pseudocode. By leveraging Elasticsearch, the system enables users to search across various facets of a paper, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Levent Toksoz , Mukund Srinath , Gang Tan , C. Lee Giles

Generating value from data requires the ability to find, access and make sense of datasets. There are many efforts underway to encourage data sharing and reuse, from scientific publishers asking authors to submit data alongside manuscripts…

Spreadsheets provide a flexible and easy to use software development environment, but that leads to error proneness. Work has been done to prevent errors in spreadsheets, including using models to specify distinct parts of a spreadsheet as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Jorge Mendes , João Saraiva

Today's database is associated with interoperability between different domains and applications. This consequently results in the importance of data portability in database. XML format fits the requirements and it has been increasingly used…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-10-07 Mikael Fernandus Simalango

Hillview is a distributed spreadsheet for browsing very large datasets that cannot be handled by a single machine. As a spreadsheet, Hillview provides a high degree of interactivity that permits data analysts to explore information quickly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Mihai Budiu , Parikshit Gopalan , Lalith Suresh , Udi Wieder , Han Kruiger , Marcos K. Aguilera

This paper presents a taxonomy for analytical spreadsheet models. It considers both the use case that a spreadsheet is meant to serve, and the engineering resources devoted to its development. We extend a previous three-type taxonomy, to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Thomas A. Grossman , Vijay Mehrotra

Spreadsheets are a ubiquitous software tool, used for a wide variety of tasks such as financial modelling, statistical analysis and inventory management. Extracting meaningful information from such data can be a difficult task, especially…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-08-11 Derek Flood , Kevin Mc Daid , Fergal Mc Caffery

A common application of spreadsheets is the development of models that deliver projections of the future financial statements of companies established to pursue ventures that are subject to project financing. A survey of 11 such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-01-26 David Colver

This paper introduces a procedure based on genetic programming to evolve XSLT programs (usually called stylesheets or logicsheets). XSLT is a general purpose, document-oriented functional language, generally used to transform XML documents…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-03-14 Pablo Garcia-Sanchez , J. L. J. Laredo , J. P. Sevilla , Pedro Castillo , J. J. Merelo

In the insurance industry, spreadsheets have emerged as an invaluable tool to for product pricing, because it is relatively straightforward to create and maintain complex pricing models using Excel. In fact, Excel is often preferred to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-09-09 Sebastian Dewhurst

Thanks to their flexibility and capability to perform different tasks and organize data in the best form and format, spreadsheets are widely used in different organizations and by different end users. Many business organizations rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Ali Aburas

Modern spreadsheet systems can be used to implement complex spreadsheet applications including data sheets, customized user forms and executable procedures written in a scripting language. These applications are often developed by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Domenico Amalfitano , Nicola Amatucci , Vincenzo De Simone , Anna Rita Fasolino , Porfirio Tramontana