This paper uses three size metrics,which are collectable during the design phase,to analyze the potentially confounding effect of class size on the associations between object-oriented（OO）metrics and maintainability.To draw as many general conclusions as possible,the confounding effect of class size is analyzed on 127 C＋＋ systems and 113 Java systems.For each OO metric,the indirect effect that represents the distortion of the association caused by class size and its variance for individual systems is first computed.Then,a statistical meta-analysis technique is used to compute the average indirect effect over all the systems and to determine if it is significantly different from zero.The experimental results show that the confounding effects of class size on the associations between OO metrics and maintainability generally exist,regardless of whatever size metric is used.Therefore,empirical studies validating OO metrics on maintainability should consider class size as a confounding variable.
语义Web模糊知识的表示和应用常常涉及模糊隶属度比较,但现有描述逻辑的模糊扩展缺乏描述模糊隶属度比较的能力.提出支持模糊隶属度比较和描述逻辑ALCN(attributive concept description language with complements and number restriction)概念构造子的扩展模糊描述逻辑FCALCN(fuzzy comparable ALCN).FCALCN引入新的原子概念形式以支持模糊隶属度比较.给出FCALCN的推理算法,证明了在空TBox约束下FCALCN的推理问题复杂性是多项式空间完全的.FCALCN能够表达语义Web上涉及模糊隶属度比较的复杂模糊知识并实现对它们的推理.
