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A reporting tool using “programming by example” for format designation

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Tetsuya Masuishi,

Nobuo TakahashiAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '00: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 177 - 180

https://doi.org/10.1145/325737.325825

Published: 09 January 2000 Publication History

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This paper describes a report tool in which report formats are designated by “Programming by Example”-like operations. Users specify a sample layout of an example row of relational table data on a sheet, and select an iteration pattern of the sample layout. The tool extracts a set of general formatting rules from the sample layout. The rules consist of absolute positions of non-iterative data, relative positions of iterative data, the iteration pattern, and the increment of the iteration. The tool interprets the rules and generates new reports of the format for different table data.

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A reporting tool using “programming by example” for format designation
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Decision support systems
      1. Expert systems

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IUI '00: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

January 2000

288 pages

ISBN:1581131348

DOI:10.1145/325737

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IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY; and Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ
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Napier Univ., UK
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

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CHEN WTU P(2012)A Report Generator for Database and Web ApplicationsIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems10.1587/transinf.E95.D.2265E95.D:9(2265-2276)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.1587/transinf.E95.D.2265
Hu SZhang JLi J(2010)Pattern-directed reporting tool with two-phase outputs2010 IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Sciences10.1109/ICSESS.2010.5552338(23-28)Online publication date: Jul-2010
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSESS.2010.5552338
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