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A measure of complexity based on a probabilistic description of physical systems is proposed. This measure incorporates the main features of the intuitive notion of such a magnitude. It can be applied to many physical situations and to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Hector Mancini , Xavier Calbet

Research shows, that the major issue in development of quality software is precise estimation. Further this estimation depends upon the degree of intricacy inherent in the software i.e. complexity. This paper attempts to empirically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-06-16 Ashish Sharma , D. S. Kushwaha

How to measure the complexity of a finite set of vectors embedded in a multidimensional space? This is a non-trivial question which can be approached in many different ways. Here we suggest a set of data complexity measures using universal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Andrei Zinovyev , Evgeny Mirkes

The increasing interest in complex networks research has been a consequence of several intrinsic features of this area, such as the generality of the approach to represent and model virtually any discrete system, and the incorporation of…

This paper discusses spreadsheets documentation and new means to achieve this end by using Excel's built-in "Comment" function. By structuring comments, they can be used as an essential tool to fully explain spreadsheet. This will greatly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Raymond Payette

This paper proposes some new architectural metrics which are appropriate for evaluating the architectural attributes of a software system. The main feature of our approach is to assess the complexity of a software architecture by analyzing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jianjun Zhao

Spreadsheets are characterized by their extensive two-dimensional grids, flexible layouts, and varied formatting options, which pose significant challenges for large language models (LLMs). In response, we introduce SpreadsheetLLM,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Haoyu Dong , Jianbo Zhao , Yuzhang Tian , Junyu Xiong , Shiyu Xia , Mengyu Zhou , Yun Lin , José Cambronero , Yeye He , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

People demand for software quality is growing increasingly, thus different scales for the software are growing fast to handle the quality of software. The software complexity metric is one of the measurements that use some of the internal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-21 Yahya Tashtoush , Mohammed Al-Maolegi , Bassam Arkok

Business process models abstract complex business processes by representing them as graphical models. Their layout, solely determined by the modeler, affects their understandability. To support the construction of understandable models it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Andrea Burattin , Vered Bernstein , Manuel Neurauter , Pnina Soffer , Barbara Weber

In this chapter, a statistical measure of complexity is introduced and some of its properties are discussed. Also, some straightforward applications are shown.

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-09-09 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Hector Mancini , Xavier Calbet

Scientists increasingly recognize the importance of providing rich, standards-adherent metadata to describe their experimental results. Despite the availability of sophisticated tools to assist in the process of data annotation,…

Defining process standards by integrating, harmonizing, and standardizing heterogeneous and often implicit processes is an important task, especially for large development organizations. However, many challenges exist, such as limiting the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Ove Armbrust , Masafumi Katahira , Yuko Miyamoto , Jürgen Münch , Haruka Nakao , Alexis Ocampo

Software developers and maintainers need to read and understand source programs and other software artifacts. The increase in size and complexity of software drastically affects several quality attributes, especially understandability and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Mohd Nazir , Raees A. Khan , Khurram Mustafa

Modeling seeks to tame complexity during software development, by supporting design, analysis, and stakeholder communication. Paradoxically, experiences made by educators indicate that students often perceive modeling as adding complexity,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Daniel Strüber

Spreadsheets are end-user programs and domain models that are heavily employed in administration, financial forecasting, education, and science because of their intuitive, flexible, and direct approach to computation. As a result,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Michael Kohlhase , Corneliu Prodescu , Christian Liguda

Complex systems are found in most branches of science. It is still argued how to best quantify their complexity and to what end. One prominent measure of complexity (the statistical complexity) has an operational meaning in terms of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-10-24 Karoline Wiesner , Mile Gu , Elisabeth Rieper , Vlatko Vedral

Recent work on interpretability has focused on concept-based explanations, where deep learning models are explained in terms of high-level units of information, referred to as concepts. Concept learning models, however, have been shown to…

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Research on spreadsheet errors began over fifteen years ago. During that time, there has been ample evidence demonstrating that spreadsheet errors are common and nontrivial. Quite simply, spreadsheet error rates are comparable to error…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-06-03 David Chadwick

A high degree of topical diversity is often considered to be an important characteristic of interesting text documents. A recent proposal for measuring topical diversity identifies three elements for assessing diversity: words, topics, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Hosein Azarbonyad , Mostafa Dehghani , Tom Kenter , Maarten Marx , Jaap Kamps , Maarten de Rijke

This work aims at discussing the complexity aspect of software while demonstrating its relationship with security. Complexity is an essential part of software; however, numerous studies indicate that they increase the vulnerability of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Mamdouh Alenezi , Mohammad Zarour