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A Multi-paradigm Complexity Metric (MCM)

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011 (ICCSA 2011)

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Huge amount of researches and software metrics have been proposed for procedural and object-oriented languages. However, there are only few metrics available in the literature related with multi-paradigm programming languages. In this paper, we propose a metric to evaluate the code written in multi-paradigm language. Our proposed metric can be used for most of the programming paradigms, including both procedural and object-oriented languages.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

    Sanjay Misra, Ibrahim Akman & Ferid Cafer

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  1. L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., Basilicata University Potenza, 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s/n, C.P. 39005, Santander, Spain

    Andrés Iglesias

  4. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    David Taniar

  5. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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Misra, S., Akman, I., Cafer, F. (2011). A Multi-paradigm Complexity Metric (MCM). In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6786. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21934-4_28

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