On experiments for measuring cognitive weights for software control structures

Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 116-119

  Gruhn, Volker ^a   Laue, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive complexity; Cognitive weights; Complexity metrics

Indexed keywords

BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS; HELIUM; WEIGHT CONTROL;

COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY; COGNITIVE INFORMATICS; COGNITIVE WEIGHT; COGNITIVE WEIGHTS; COMPLEXITY METRICS; CONTROL STRUCTURES; IMPERATIVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SOFTWARE CONTROL;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

EID: 48049106658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COGINF.2007.4341880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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