2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing (VLHCC'04) Header and Unit Inference for Spreadsheets Through Spatial Analyses Rome, Italy September 26-September 29 ISBN: 0-7803-8696-5
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2004.29
This paper describes the design and implementation of a unit and header inference system for spreadsheets. The system is based on a formal model of units that we have described in previous work. Since the unit inference depends on information about headers in a spreadsheet, a realistic unit inference system requires a method for automatically determining headers. The present paper describes (1) several spatial-analysis algorithms for header inference, (2) a framework that facilitates the integration of different algorithms, and (3) the implementation of the system.The combined header and unit inference system is fully integrated into Microsoft Excel and can be used to automatically identify various kinds of errors in spreadsheets. Test results show that the system works accurately and reliably.
Citation:
Robin Abraham, Martin Erwig, "Header and Unit Inference for Spreadsheets Through Spatial Analyses," vlhcc, pp.165-172, 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing (VLHCC'04), 2004 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||