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 -- Jorma Sajaniemi Professor University of Joensuu E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science Phone: + 358 13 2517933 P.O.Box 111 Fax: + 358 13 2517955 FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland http://cs.joensuu.fi/~saja/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/