A cognitive complexity metric based on category learning

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 106-112

  Klemola, T ^a   Rilling, J ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive informatics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY; COGNITIVE INFORMATICS; ITS APPLICATIONS; LINES OF CODE; RELATED WORKS; SOFTWARE COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84944454269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COGINF.2003.1225966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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