Re: PPIG discuss: Identifying Goals in Spreadsheets

[Jorma Sajaniemi]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 06:58:03PM +0200, Bennett Kankuzi wrote:
 
> ... do you know of any research papers on goals
> and plans in spreadsheets that could help answer my question?

The following papers might be of use to you:

    Sajaniemi, J., Tukiainen, M. (1996). Goals and Plans in
    Spreadsheets and Other Programming Tools (Extended Abstract).
    PPIG 8, Proceedings of the 8th Annual Workshop of the Psychology
    of Programming Interest Group, (eds. P. Vanneste, K. Bertels, B.
    De Decker, J-M. Jaques), KaHo Sint Lieven, Belgium, 114-122.

    Tukiainen, M., Sajaniemi, J. (1996). Spreadsheet Goal and Plan
    Catalog: Additive and Multiplicative Computational Goals and
    Plans in Spreadsheet Calculation. University of Joensuu,
    Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, Series A,
    Report A-1996-4.

    Sajaniemi, J., Tukiainen, M., Väisänen, J. (1999). Goals and
    Plans in Spreadsheet Calculation. University of Joensuu,
    Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, Series A,
    Report A-1999-1.

    Sajaniemi J. (2000) Modeling Spreadsheet Audit: A Rigorous
    Approach to Automatic Visualization. Journal of Visual Languages
    and Computing 11(1), 49-82.

I can send you copies of the papers if you wish.

Saja

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