The fact that papers are written for the audience of critical reviewers hinders adoption: possible users are not aware of academic mores and will be discouraged by described limitations. With adoption in this context, I mean that people outside of your direct group of colleagues and acquaintances will use your algorithm/tool/method. I pose that the way papers are written currently […]
Proposition #2
A method to encourage replication studies is to initiate a replication track, in which results from the previous edition are being challenged. Unfortunately, research today is mainly aimed at obtaining new results. I find this very strange, challenging new ideas is the heart of research and it is how much of the important scientific knowledge was […]
Proposition #1
The core reasons for the success of spreadsheets are their immediate feedback system and their continuous deployment model. Spreadsheets are enormously successful. It is estimated that 95% of all US companies use spreadsheets for financial reporting (1). In the eighties spreadsheets became “the medium, the method, the tool, and the language of financial analysis” (2) This success raises the […]
Project #tweetprop
On January 23 I will defend my dissertation. In the Netherlands, this is mainly a ceremonial thing. The 8 committee members review your thesis beforehand and you are allowed to print it before the defense. As Dutch tradition has it, you will not only be defending your dissertation, but also a number of propositions. Some […]
Data Clone Detection and Visualization in Spreadsheets
We just got the news this paper is accepted at ICSE 2013 in San Francisco. The idea We know from our experience with spreadsheet users, that copy-pasting is a common way to transfer data within or between spreadsheets.However, this can be error-prone when the original data may changes and the copies get outdated. In software engineering, it […]
