A metric for class structural complexity focusing on relationships among class members

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E81-D, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1364-1373

  Aman, Hirohisa ^a   Yanaru, Torao ^a   Nagamatsu, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Class structural complexity; Effort equation; Words: Weighted closure

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPH THEORY;

CLASS STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032297150     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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