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The concept of prime programs was developed by Roy Alejandro Maddux in his Ph.d dissertation A study of computer program structure (University of waterloo, Canada, July 1985). as well as other researchers as a generalization of structured programming to define the unique hierarchical decompositions of a graph.


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[Jun 06, 2011] Measuring Prime Program Complexity by MARVIN V. ZELKOWITZ & JIANHUI TIAN

Jan 1, 1994 | University of Maryland

This paper uses the prime program decomposition of a program as the basis for a measure that closely correlates with our intuitive notion of program complexity. This measure is based upon the information theory ideas of randomness and entropy such that results about structured programming, data abstractions, and other programming paradigms can be stated in quantitative terms, and empirical means can be used to validate the assumptions used to develop the model. As a graph-based model, it can be applied to several graphical examples as extensions not otherwise available to sourcecode based models. This paper introduces the measure, derives several properties for it, and gives some simple examples to demonstrate that the measure is a plausible approximation of our notions concerning structured programming.

[Jun 06, 2011] Global data flow analysis by decomposition into primes

Global data flow analysis by decomposition into primes

Ira R. Forman ICSE '82 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Software engineering IEEE Computer Society Press Los Alamitos, CA, USA

Cognitive Design Elements to Support the Construction of .. - Storey, Fracchia, Müller (1999) (11 citations)
observed that programmers first develop a control-flow abstraction of the program which captures the www.csr.uvic.ca/~mstorey/papers/jss.ps

Understanding Function Behaviors through Program Slicing - De Lucia, Fasolino, Munro (1996) (4 citations)
of the program she builds is a control-flow abstraction called the program model. The program
orca.unl.ac.uk/~mark/delucia.ps

From Program Comprehension to Tool Requirements for an.. - von Mayrhauser, Vans (1993) (Correct) (2 citations)
representation programmers build is a control flow abstraction of the program called the program
www.cs.colostate.edu/~aaa/cmp2.ps

Comprehension Processes During Large Scale Maintenance - von Mayrhauser, Vans (1994) (Correct) (1 citation)
build is a program model consisting of a control flow abstraction of the program [5]Suppose an engineer
www.cs.colostate.edu/~aaa/icse.ps

From Code Understanding Needs to Reverse Engineering Tool.. - von Mayrhauser, Vans (1993) (Correct)
representation programmers build is a control flow abstraction of the program called the program
www.cs.colostate.edu/~aaa/case93.ps

Program Comprehension And Enhancement Of Software - von Mayrhauser, Vans, Lang (Correct)
6] found that programmers first build a control flow abstraction of the program called the program
www.cs.colostate.edu/~aaa/ifip.ps

Control Abstraction in Parallel Programming Languages - Lawrence Crowl Department (1992) (Correct)
that parallelism is a form of control flow, control abstraction is particularly important for parallel
www.crowl.org/Lawrence/paper/conferences/1992P-ICCL-44/fulltext.ps.gz

Identifying Procedural Structure in Cobol Programs - John Field Ramalingam (Correct)
Abstract The principal control-flow abstraction mechanism in the Cobol language is the
www.research.ibm.com/people/r/rama/Papers/paste99.ps

Replicable GMBs: A tool for the specification of.. - Mar'ia Cecilia (Correct)
layer, but do little to help create the dialog control layer, let alone to provide semantic feedback.
at just two levels of abstraction: control flow, specified with GMB, and operations, specified in
Structure is specified at several levels of abstraction, by nesting boxes, as in Structured Boxes

ftp.ing.puc.cl/pub/escuela/dcc/techReports/rt94-03.ps

VASE User's Manual Version 1.0 - David Jablonowski (Correct)
steering applications. vase uses a control-flow abstraction to describe the complex internal
www.csrd.uiuc.edu/reports/1294.ps.gz

Congestion Control in BBN Packet-Switched Networks* - John Robinson Dan (Correct)
result in instabilities, when delay is used to control flow rates. 3. It is difficult to design a fair
its submission rate. The use of window-based flow control protocols at the higher level will
reasons: 1. There may be no window-oriented flow control in use for some of the congesting traffic. 2.

gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/doc/sigcomm/ccr/archive/1990/jan90/robinson.ps.Z

LISP AND SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION: An International Journal, .. - Callee-Save Registers In (Correct)
to A-calculus, but which closely reflects the control-flow and data-flow operations of a yon Neumann
ftp.cs.princeton.edu/pub/packages/ml/zsh/callee.ps

Programming the Hawaii Parallel Computer - Richard Halverson Jr (Correct)
traditional language constructs for defining control flow. One way to use the XILINX board on a HPC
ftp.ics.Hawaii.Edu/pub/tr/ics-tr-94-24.ps.Z

Rule Based Specification of Information Systems - Peter Mcbrien And (Correct)
and costly due to the difference between control flow and data flow not having been modelled in
argon.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/pjm/publications/MSW94.ps.gz

March 1995 - Flight Safety Digest (Correct)
airports Airspace capacity bottlenecks Flow control and the competition for slot times and,
www.flightsafety.org/fsd/fsd_mar95.pdf

Progressive Profiling: A Methodology based on - Profile Propagation And (Correct)
for exact matches based on each procedure's control flow structure, and propagates the entire profile
or additional information from the compiler. 3 Control Flow-based Binary Matching This section describes

www.cesr.ncsu.edu/fddo4/papers/FDDO_ZhengWang.pdf

Unknown - (Correct)
the tightcoupling between wormhole routers for flow control to detect and recover from potential dead-
The basic idea is to use the fine-grained flow control and backpressure of wormhole routing to
The CR routing mechanisms provide end-to-end flow control and fault tolerance that obviates the need for

csag.ucsd.edu/papers/cr-tpds.ps

A Backward Error Recovery Scheme for the - Apemille Parallel Computer (Correct)
unit (called Tmille) performing mainly flow- control, signal handling, and global integer
www.inf.mit.bme.hu/FTSRG/Publications/EWDC-11b.pdf

Graph-Based Models for Managing Development Processes.. - Carl-Arndt Krapp Sven (Correct)
relationships, tasks are connected by control flows (similar to precedence relationships in net
and for testing are inserted into the task net. Control flow dependencies are established between the

www-i3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/private/schleicher/tagt98.ps

Why Computer Interfaces Are Not Like Paintings: - The User As (Correct)
language is usually based on either a control flow or a data flow model. Graphical interface: a
hwr.nici.kun.nl/cognavhyp/Petre-notPainting-EWHCI92.ps

Congestion Control in Routing Networks - Chien (1986) (Correct)
Problem .49 4.2 Flow Control in Data Networks .50
64 5.3.1 System Performance without Flow Control .64 5.3.2 System Performance
.64 5.3.2 System Performance with Flow Control .69 5.4 Overall System

www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-382.pdf

IP switching in a simplified ATM environment - Mika Ilvesmki Marko (Correct)
Internet traffic has the ability to handle the flow control on connection basis and that no additional
on connection basis and that no additional flow control is needed. Amount of congestion Received

keskus.hut.fi/~mluoma/publications/vvdc97co.ps

Flip-Tick Architecture: a cycle-oriented architecture - For Distributed Problem (Correct)
events. The cycles are not based on an explicit control flow management that takes care of timely operation
only way of exchanging data between actors, the control flow results from three intertwined mechanisms: i)

set.gmd.de/pub/SET/publications/released/1998/pdf/Richter98.1.pdf

Application Performance of a Linux Cluster - Using Converse Laxmikant (Correct)
is not guaranteed, we implement a window-based flow-control protocol. To deal with the fact that there are
www.ks.uiuc.edu/~brunner/Papers/RTSPP99.ps

Towards Maximising the use of Structural VHDL for Synthesis - O'Brien, Robert, Maginot (Correct)
but only in specific areas such as describing control flow and synchronisation. In the rest of this
herkules.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/proceedings/eurodac-96/papers/1996/eurdac96/htmfiles/sun_sgi/../../pdffiles/v07_3.pdf

Light Weight Optimizations for Reducing Hot Saves and.. - Of Callee-Saved Registers (Correct)
according to their liveness in the call and control flow graphs of the program This method requires a
accomplish this, they also make use of data and control flow analyses. Others [4, 8, 9, 10, 16] handle the

www.cesr.ncsu.edu/fddo4/papers/bilha.pdf

Primitive Geometric Operations on - Planar Algebraic Curves (Correct)
sufficient precisions to direct the algorithm control flows correctly. These primitive geometric
and efficiency dynamically depending on the control flow of algorithm, i.e.use low precision

3map.snu.ac.kr/mskim/ftp/gauss93.ps

Henry Chang - Top-Down Constraint-Driven Design (Correct)
criteria set by the mapping function, then the flow control is returned to the mapping function. On a
As before, if this step fails, the flow control is returned to the mapping function. If it is
If all of the specifications are met, the flow control is returned to the upper node with the

ic.eecs.berkeley.edu/pub/Papers_Talks/Analog_Group/PostScript/CICC92_chang.ps.Z

Demonstration of an Automated Integrated Test.. - Margaria, Niese, Steffen (2001) (Correct)
correctness and consistency of the test cases' control flow logic [3]During the test case design, vital
ls5-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~niese/Niese02c.pdf

Unification of Finite Failure Non-Homogeneous Poisson - Process Models Through (Correct)
types of coverage definitions in literature: control-flow and data-flow coverage[2, 6, 7, 16]Each
on the Effectiveness of Dataflow-and Control-flowbased Test Adequacy Criteria,Proc. of Intl.

www.ee.duke.edu/~ssg/softrel/TechReports/issre.ps.gz

Terrence Pratt



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