English
Related papers

Related papers: Auto-Formula: Recommend Formulas in Spreadsheets u…

200 papers

Visualisation is often presented as a means of simplifying information and helping people understand complex data. In this paper we describe the design, development and evaluation of an interactive visualisation for spreadsheet formulae…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Chris Roast

We introduce SmartTable, an online spreadsheet application that is equipped with intelligent assistance capabilities. With a focus on relational tables, describing entities along with their attributes, we offer assistance in two flavors:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Shuo Zhang , Vugar Abdul Zada , Krisztian Balog

To improve performance in visual feature representation from photos or videos for practical applications, we generally require large-scale human-annotated labeled data while training deep neural networks. However, the cost of gathering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zhenyuan Lu

A spreadsheet usually starts as a simple and single-user software artifact, but, as frequent as in other software systems, quickly evolves into a complex system developed by many actors. Often, different users work on different aspects of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Pedro Maia , Jorge Mendes , Jácome Cunha , Henrique Rebêlo , João Saraiva

Legacy spreadsheets are both, an asset, and an enduring problem concerning spreadsheets in business. To make spreadsheets stay alive and remain correct, comprehension of a given spreadsheet is highly important. Visualization techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-09-19 Karin Hodnigg , Roland T. Mittermeir

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

Spreadsheets are one of the most widely used tools for end users. As a result, spreadsheets such as Excel are now included in many curricula. However, digital solutions for assessing spreadsheet assignments are still scarce in the teaching…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sören Aguirre Reid , Frank Kammer , Jonas-Ian Kuche , Pia-Doreen Ritzke , Markus Siepermann , Max Stephan , Armin Wagenknecht

Diffusion model has become a main paradigm for synthetic data generation in many subfields of modern machine learning, including computer vision, language model, or speech synthesis. In this paper, we leverage the power of diffusion model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Namjoon Suh , Xiaofeng Lin , Din-Yin Hsieh , Merhdad Honarkhah , Guang Cheng

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

Accounting and Finance (A&F) Professionals are arguably the most loyal and concentrated population of spreadsheet users. The work that they perform in spreadsheets has the most significant impact on financial data and business processes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-09-23 Mbwana Alliy , Patty Brown

Most spreadsheet surveys both for reporting use and error focus on the practical application of the spreadsheet in a particular industry. Typically these studies will illustrate that a particular percentage of spreadsheets are used for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Simon Thorne , David Ball

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

Spreadsheet manipulation software are widely used for data management and analysis of tabular data, yet the creation of conditional formatting (CF) rules remains a complex task requiring technical knowledge and experience with specific…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Mukul Singh , José Cambronero , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le , Gust Verbruggen

The hard coding of input data or constants into spreadsheet formulas is widely recognised as poor spreadsheet model design. However, the importance of avoiding such practice appears to be underestimated perhaps in light of the lack of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Paul J. Blayney

Spreadsheets are ubiquitous, heavily relied on throughout vast swathes of finance, commerce, industry, academia and Government. They are also acknowledged to be extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error. If these two points are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-09-30 Angus Dunn

We propose a research strategy for creating and deploying prescriptive recommendations for spreadsheet practice. Empirical data on usage can be used to create a taxonomy of spreadsheet classes. Within each class, existing practices and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-07-22 Thomas A. Grossman , Ozgur Ozluk

Spreadsheets are critical to data-centric tasks, with rich, structured layouts that enable efficient information transmission. Given the time and expertise required for manual spreadsheet layout design, there is an urgent need for automated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Qin Chen , Yuanyi Ren , Xiaojun Ma , Mugeng Liu , Han Shi , Dongmei Zhang

Heavy use of spreadsheets by organisations bears many potential risks such as errors, ambiguity, data loss, duplication, and fraud. In this paper these risks are briefly outlined along with their available mitigation methods such as:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Mahmood H. Shubbak , Simon Thorne

Data processing systems impose multiple views on data as it is processed by the system. These views include spreadsheets, databases, matrices, and graphs. The common theme amongst these views is the need to store and operate on data as…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Jeremy Kepner , Julian Chaidez , Vijay Gadepally , Hayden Jansen

A computing environment is proposed, based on batch spreadsheet processing, which produces a spreadsheet display from plain text input files of commands, similar to the way documents are created using LaTeX. In this environment, besides the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Richard Perry