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An Enhanced Spreadsheet Supporting Calculation-Structure Variants, and Its Application to Web-Based Processing

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Federation over the Web

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This paper reports our work towards an end user environment for building and experimenting with federations of Web-based processing resources. We present the key concepts and an initial interface for the RecipeSheet, a spreadsheet-like environment with explicit support for creating and comparing alternative scenarios, based on the principles of subjunctive interfaces. A key feature of the RecipeSheet is that alternative scenarios can differ in terms of the processing used to calculate cells’ values; in the context of the Web, this is useful for gathering and comparing results from alternative resources that offer nominally the same processing. We show various usage cases for our prototype, including an example from Web-based bioinformatics.

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  1. Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan

    Aran Lunzer

  2. Department of Computer Science (DIKU), University of Copenhagen, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

    Kasper Hornbæk

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  1. Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University Sapporo, Kita 13, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, 060-8628, Sapporo, Japan

    Klaus P. Jantke

  2. Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University, 060-8628, Sapporo, Japan

    Aran Lunzer

  3. Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France

    Nicolas Spyratos

  4. Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University, N13 W8, 0608628, Sapporo, Japan

    Yuzuru Tanaka

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Lunzer, A., Hornbæk, K. (2006). An Enhanced Spreadsheet Supporting Calculation-Structure Variants, and Its Application to Web-Based Processing. In: Jantke, K.P., Lunzer, A., Spyratos, N., Tanaka, Y. (eds) Federation over the Web. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3847. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11605126_9

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