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This paper introduces a functional spreadsheet framework for authoring logic implication rules. This framework was conceived with the objective of reproducing many of the characteristics that make spreadsheet programming accessible to end-users. In the proposed framework, rule authors describe the semantics of a binary relation by constructing a functional spreadsheet model that computes the image of that binary relation. This model is subsequently translated into a collection of logic implication rules. We implemented and integrated this framework into a deductive spreadsheet system that extends Microsoft Excel with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard ontology language OWL + SWRL.
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Tallis, M., Balzer, R.M. (2008). A Functional Spreadsheet Framework for Authoring Logic Implication Rules. In: Bassiliades, N., Governatori, G., Paschke, A. (eds) Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning on the Web. RuleML 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5321. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88808-6_23
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