This may be of interest too for an information theoretic measure of the first kind:
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1383762101000194 Regards, Rudi 2009/12/11 Israel Herraiz <i...@herraiz.org>: > Excerpts from Alan Blackwell's message of Thu Dec 10 19:00:29 +0100 2009: >> A) the entropy in the program itself (e.g. graph of control structure, >> data structure, type structure etc) >> >> B) the entropy in the programming tools being used (language >> syntax, execution model, libraries etc) >> >> The Arbuckle paper you've recommended is related to the first of >> these, not the second (as far as I can tell). > > Yes, that paper is about the first kind of entropy that you > mention. About the second one, you might find this paper interesting: > > A semantic entropy metric > http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/smr.255 > > Cheers, > Israel > -- Campaign against Sussex University cuts: http://www.sussex-ucu.org.uk/sucu/
