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From: marcel@ADS.COM (Marcel Schoppers)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: program complexity
Summary: some citations
Keywords: complexity, program, verification
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Date: 15 Jun 90 17:01:49 GMT
References: <71@tucson.sie.arizona.edu>
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Article <71@tucson.sie.arizona.edu> Musa Jafar writes:
> ... I am looking for articles that discuss metrics for measuring
> program complexity...  Any articles or ideas or articles titles...
>musa@tucson.sie.arizona.edu

Here are a few.  The recent ones have useful references too.

@Book(halstead,
key "halstead",
author "Halstead, M.",
title "Elements of Software Science",
publisher "North-Holland Elsevier",
address "New York",
year "1977" )

@Article(lew,
key "lew",
author "Lew, K., T. Dillon, and K. Forward",
title "Software complexity and its impact on software reliability",
journal "IEEE Trans Software Engineering",
volume "14/11",
pages "1645ff",
year "1988")

@Article(li,
key "li",
author "Li, H. and W. Cheung",
title "An empirical study of software metrics",
journal "IEEE Trans Software Engineering",
volume "13/6",
pages "697ff",
year "1987")

@Article(ramamurthy,
key "ramamurthy",
author "Ramamurthy, B. and A. Melton",
title "A synthesis of software science measures and the cyclomatic number",
journal "IEEE Trans Software Engineering",
volume "14/8",
pages "1116ff",
year "1988")

@Article(info-content,
key "schoppers89b",
author "SCHOPPERS, M.",
title "Sensory bandwidth and the information content of goal structures",
journal "International Journal of Expert Systems Research & Applications",
volume "2:3",
pages "257-292",
year "1989" )