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Measuring structure complexity of UML class diagrams

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Journal of Electronics (China)

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To provide system designer a valid measure to evaluate the structure complexity of class diagrams objectively, this letter first proposes a method to transform a class diagrams into a weighted class dependence graph, then presents a structure complexity measure for class diagrams based on entropy distance.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. of Computer Science & Eng., Southeast Univ., 210096, Nanjing

    Zhou Yuming & Xu Baowen

  2. State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan

    Xu Baowen

  3. Jiangsu Key Lab. of Computer Info. Proc. Tech., Soochow Univ., 215006, Suzhou

    Xu Baowen

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  1. Zhou Yuming
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Supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60073012), National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China (G1999032701), Natural Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (BK2001004). Opening Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering in Wuhan University, Opening Foundation of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Computer Information Processing Technology in Soochow University, Visiting Scholar Foundation of Key Lab. In University, and SEU-NARI Foundation.

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Zhou, Y., Xu, B. Measuring structure complexity of UML class diagrams. J. of Electron.(China) 20, 227–231 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687710

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