Enhancing Excel business tools with additional relational and recursive capabilities Online publication date: Thu, 23-Dec-2021
by Pedro Ramos; Luís Botelho; António Gonçalves Martins
International Journal of Information Technology and Management (IJITM), Vol. 20, No. 4, 2021
Abstract: This paper presents a new plug-in that enriches spreadsheet capabilities mainly in what concerns it's potential regarding relational queries and recursive computational processes. Currently, some apparently trivial and useful queries can only be handled with the support of programming skills. Spreadsheet users with low computer science skills should have a natural and easy way to handle those queries within the spreadsheet, without relying on external programming (e.g., VBA). The tool we have developed can be used with Prolog technology and provides those features to the most used professional spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel. Throughout the paper, we explore the plug-in features with several business examples.
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