Entropies as measures of software information

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 110-117

  Abd El Hafiz, Salwa K ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Entropy; Information theory; Measure properties; Software measurement

Indexed keywords

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMS; PROCEDURAL PROGRAMS; SHANNON ENTROPY; SOFTWARE INFORMATION CONTENT;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION THEORY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROCEDURE ORIENTED LANGUAGES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77953748094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2001.972721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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