Reuse of existing software components plays an important role in increasing the quality of software products and the productivity of software development. The measurement of levels of software reuse is necessary to monitor improvements in software reuse. This paper presents a set of measurable reuse attributes appropriate to object oriented systems, and a suite of metrics which quantify these a...

abstract the role of l1 in second/foreign language learning has been the subject of much debate and controversy. this article reports on a piece of research carried out in a junior high school in isfahan, iran. this study was conducted to examine the effect of using translation from l1 to l2 on the improvement of efl learners' language accuracy. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 62 stud...

The present paper introduces and evaluates a readability measurement method designed for learners of EFL (English as a foreign language). The proposed readability measurement method (a regression model) estimates the text readability based on linguistic features, such as lexical, syntactic and discourse features. Text readability refers to the comprehension rate of a text (0.0-1.0). The experim...

Three components of the Alzheimer's disease care equation are considered : impairment, felt burden, and the institutionalization decision. Measurement and the results of existing studies are compared with field data on the descriptive organization of the caregiving experience. It is suggested that measurement is an inappropriate language for depicting the experience, empirically distorting what...

The importance of the ability to measure the performance of programs written in highlevel languages is well known. Performance measurement enables users to locate and correct program inefficiencies where automatic optimizations fail and provides a tool for understanding program behavior. This paper describes performance measurement facilities for the Icon programming language, and shows not onl...

As a result of the performance measurement revolution many organisations have numerous measures of performance but often with significant weaknesses in the way that these measures are identified, integrated, communicated and acted upon. First generation performance measurement frameworks have partly contributed to this as none of the approaches addresses the full range of criteria important for...

In this paper we present a game semantics for a quantum programming language based on a new definition of quantum strategies. The language studied is MCdata, a typed version of the measurement calculus recently introduced by Danos et. al. We give a soundness and adequacy result based on our quantum game semantics. The main contribution is not the semantics of MCdata but rather the development o...

We present in this paper the design and implementation of the OntoNL Framework, a natural language interface generator for knowledge repositories, as well as a natural language system for interactions with multimedia repositories which was built using the OntoNL Framework. The system allows the users to specify natural language requests about the multimedia content with rich semantics that resu...

Computing with words and perceptions, or CWP for short, is a mode of computing in which the objects of computation are words, propositions and perceptions described in a natural language. Perceptions play a key role in human cognition. Humans-but not machines-have a remarkable capability to perform a wide variety of physical and mental tasks without any measurements and any computations. Everyd...