We are surrounded by data, a vast amount of data that has brought about an increasing
need for combining and analyzing it in order to extract information and generate knowledge …

Thanks to their flexibility and intuitive programming model, spreadsheets are widely used in
industry, often for businesscritical applications. Similar to software developers, professional …

Dataflow Semantics for End-user Programmable Applications. Rio de Janeiro, 2017. 185p.
Tese de doutorado–Departamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio …

Spreadsheets offer many advantages as the computational and data-storage engine for
applications that are authored by end users. Paradoxically, however, their main failing in this …

The widespread distribution of smart mobile devices offers promising perspectives for the
timely collection of huge amounts of data. When realizing sophisticated mobile data …

Spreadsheets are one of the most popular end-users programming environment. Although
spreadsheets provide an interactive interface for data manipulation and analysis, they are …

The design and implementation of higher level data flow programming language interfaces
are becoming increasingly important for data intensive computation. DryadLINQ is a …

The advent of off-the-shelf programmable embedded systems such as Arduino enables
people with little programming skills to interact with the real-world using sensors and …

The dataflow interchange format (DIF) is a textual language that is geared towards capturing
the semantics of graphical design tools for DSP system design. A key objective of DIF is to …

The popularity of the Data Flow Diagram (DFD) specification tool in industry seems to stem
from its use of intuitively defined concepts and notation. However, the flexibility of the DFD …