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Spreadsheet software is the tool of choice for interactive ad-hoc data management, with adoption by billions of users. However, spreadsheets are not scalable, unlike database systems. On the other hand, database systems, while highly…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Mangesh Bendre , Vipul Venkataraman , Xinyan Zhou , Kevin Chang , Aditya Parameswaran

Patterns are fundamental to human cognition, enabling the recognition of structure and regularity across diverse domains. In this work, we focus on structural repeats, patterns that arise from the repetition of hierarchical relations within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zeng Ren , Xinyi Guan , Martin Rohrmeier

Spreadsheets offer a supremely successful and intuitive means of processing and exchanging numerical content. Its intuitive ad-hoc nature makes it hugely popular for use in diverse areas including business and engineering, yet these very…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Peter Bartholomew

Sensemaking and narrative are two inherently interconnected concepts about how people understand the world around them. Sensemaking is the process by which people structure and interconnect the information they encounter in the world with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Zev Battad , Mei Si

We introduce structured active inference, a large generalization and formalization of active inference using the tools of categorical systems theory. We cast generative models formally as systems "on an interface", with the latter being a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Toby St Clere Smithe

Tables form a central component in both exploratory data analysis and formal reporting procedures across many industries. These tables are often complex in their conceptual structure and in the computations that generate their individual…

Computation · Statistics 2023-06-30 Gabriel Becker , Adrian Waddell

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

Business intelligence (BI) tools for database analytics have come a long way and nowadays also provide ready insights or visual query explorations, e.g. QuickInsights by Microsoft Power BI, SpotIQ by ThoughtSpot, Zenvisage, etc. In this…

Interconnected dynamic systems are a pervasive component of our modern infrastructures. The complexity of such systems can be staggering, which motivates simplified representations for their manipulation and analysis. This work introduces…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-19 E. Yeung , J. Goncalves , H. Sandberg , S. Warnick

Concept discovery is one of the open problems in the interpretability literature that is important for bridging the gap between non-deep learning experts and model end-users. Among current formulations, concepts defines them by as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Adrianna Janik , Kris Sankaran

The paper presents a software tool for analysis and interactive engagement in various logical reasoning tasks. A first feature of the program consists in providing an interface for working with logic-specific repositories of formal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Ştefan Minică

This paper proposes a structure-aware driven scheduling graph modeling method to improve the accuracy and representation capability of anomaly identification in scheduling behaviors of complex systems. The method first designs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ning Lyu , Junjie Jiang , Lu Chang , Chihui Shao , Feng Chen , Chong Zhang

Exploratory analysis of a text corpus is essential for assessing data quality and developing meaningful hypotheses. Text analysis relies on understanding documents through structured attributes spanning various granularities of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Will Epperson , Arpit Mathur , Adam Perer , Dominik Moritz

The boom in visualization generation tools has significantly lowered the threshold for chart authoring. Nevertheless, chart authors with an insufficient understanding of perceptual theories may encounter difficulties in evaluating the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Xumeng Wang , Xiangxuan Zhang , Zhiqi Gao , Shuangcheng Jiao , Yuxin Ma

The paper presents two complementary strategies for identifying errors in spreadsheet programs. The strategies presented are grounded on the assumption that spreadsheets are software, albeit of a different nature than conventional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-02-19 Yirsaw Ayalew , Markus Clermont , Roland T. Mittermeir

Spreadsheet programming is challenging. Programmers use spreadsheet programming knowledge (e.g., formulas) and problem-solving skills to combine actions into complex tasks. Advancements in large language models have introduced language…

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

We know anything because we learn about it, there is anything we ever share about it, but now a lot of media that can represent how it happened as infrastructure of the knowledge sharing. This paper aims to introduce a model for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Sufianto Mahfudz , Mahyuddin K. M. Nasution , Sawaluddin Nasution

Typically, for analysing and modelling social phenomena, networks are a convenient framework that allows for the representation of the interconnectivity of individuals. These networks are often considered transmission structures for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Damian Serwata , Mateusz Nurek , Radoslaw Michalski

Creative and communicative work is often underpinned by implicit structures, such as the Hero's Journey in storytelling, design patterns in software, or chord progressions in music. People often learn these structures from examples - a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Sitong Wang , Samia Menon , Dingzeyu Li , Xiaojuan Ma , Richard Zemel , Lydia B. Chilton