For more than a decade, metrics of software complexity has been an intriguing topic for discussion. Many metrics have been proposed. Among them, the cyclomatic complexity metric is the easiest to understand and compute. In this paper, the cyclomatic complexity metric and its extensions are reviewed. The strengths and weaknesses of the cyclomatic metric are identified. One of the major weaknesse...

For systems usually characterized as \complex/living/intelligent" very often the spatio-temporal patterns exhibited on di erent scales di er markedly from one another. For example the biomass distribution of a human body \looks very di erent" depending on the spatial scale at which one examines that biomass. Conversely, the density patterns at di erent scales in \dead/simple" systems (e.g., gas...

1 ABSTRACT We present a discriminant measure that can be used to determine the model complexity in a speech recognition system. In the speech recogition process, given a test feature vector the conditional probability of the feature vector has to be obtained for several al-lophone (sub-phonetic units) classes using a gaussian-mixture density model for each class. The gaussian-mixture models are...

Recently tasks, as the basic units of syllabi, and the cognitive complexity, as the criterion for sequencing them, have caught many second language researchers’ attention. This study sought to explore the effect of utilizing the cognitively simple and complex tasks on high- and low-proficient EFL Iranian writers’ linguistic performance, i.e., fluency, accuracy, lexical complexity, and structura...