Title :
Visually customizing inference rules about apples and oranges
Author :
Burnett, Margaret ; Erwig, Martin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA
Abstract :
We have been working on a unit system for end-user spreadsheets that is based on the concrete notion of units instead of the abstract concept of types. In previous work, we defined such a system formally. In this paper we describe a visual system to support the formal reasoning in two ways. First, it supports communicating and explaining the unit inference process to users. Second and more important, our approach allows users to change the system´s reasoning by adding and customizing the system´s inference rules.
Keywords :
inference mechanisms; personal computing; spreadsheet programs; visual programming; end-user spreadsheets; formal reasoning; unit inference process; visual system; visually customizing inference rules; Computer languages; Computer science; Concrete; Costs; Error correction; Identity-based encryption; Law; Layout; Legal factors;
Conference_Titel :
Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE 2002 Symposia on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1644-0
DOI :
10.1109/HCC.2002.1046366