Towards Validating Prediction Systems for Process Understandability: Measuring Process Understandability

Motivated by software metrics, several process metrics for measuring internal (structural) process attributes have been proposed. Integrated in validated prediction systems, these metrics can be used to predict values of external process attributes like, for example, process understandability. There...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Proceedings pp. 564 - 571
Main Authors: Melcher, J., Seese, D.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.09.2008
Subjects:
Concrete
Costs
Design for experiments
Humans
measurement approach
metric
Process design
process understandability
Scientific computing
Software algorithms
Software measurement
Software metrics
Time measurement
ISBN:0769535232, 9780769535234
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Abstract Motivated by software metrics, several process metrics for measuring internal (structural) process attributes have been proposed. Integrated in validated prediction systems, these metrics can be used to predict values of external process attributes like, for example, process understandability. There are only a few papers dealing with finding a process understandability metric and validating prediction systems for process understandability. Looking at these publications, we identified possible problems with metric reliability and validity. In this paper, we define new metrics for process understandability inspired by existing work. Furthermore, we present some hypotheses about effects of measuring process understandability. Conducting an experiment, we got some encouraging findings supporting these hypotheses: different aspects of process understandability can be complicated in varying degrees for a process and asking only some few questions about a process can cause values for process understandability differing very much from the real value. These findings should be considered in future work about measuring process understandability.
AbstractList Motivated by software metrics, several process metrics for measuring internal (structural) process attributes have been proposed. Integrated in validated prediction systems, these metrics can be used to predict values of external process attributes like, for example, process understandability. There are only a few papers dealing with finding a process understandability metric and validating prediction systems for process understandability. Looking at these publications, we identified possible problems with metric reliability and validity. In this paper, we define new metrics for process understandability inspired by existing work. Furthermore, we present some hypotheses about effects of measuring process understandability. Conducting an experiment, we got some encouraging findings supporting these hypotheses: different aspects of process understandability can be complicated in varying degrees for a process and asking only some few questions about a process can cause values for process understandability differing very much from the real value. These findings should be considered in future work about measuring process understandability.
Author Melcher, J.
Seese, D.
Author_xml – sequence: 1
  givenname: J.
  surname: Melcher
  fullname: Melcher, J.
  organization: Inst. AIFB, Univ. Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany
– sequence: 2
  givenname: D.
  surname: Seese
  fullname: Seese, D.
  organization: Inst. AIFB, Univ. Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany
BookMark eNp1jEtLxDAYRQM6oB1n68ZN_0Br8iVpEndD8QXjAzojuBqSJtXITCtJRPrvrYxb7-bC4dyboeN-6B1C5wSXhGB12bw-Lpu6BIxlCewIZVhUilMOFGYo-8WKKgJwghYxfuApnEup4BS9r4dvHWzMX_TOW518_5Y_B2d9m_zQ580Yk9vHvBvChIfWxZhveutCTLq32vidT-NV_uB0_AqH7T_SGZp1ehfd4q_naHNzva7vitXT7X29XBWeCJ4KXUljoMJdx0hnXGsBhDCipZrT1kgwTlqQ1DDChbDMgjLMCsUnuwOGgc7RxeHXO-e2n8HvdRi3HDCTgtAfh9tbXw
ContentType Conference Proceeding
DBID 6IE
6IL
CBEJK
RIE
RIL
DOI 10.1109/SYNASC.2008.24
DatabaseName IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Conference Proceedings
IEEE Proceedings Order Plan All Online (POP All Online) 1998-present by volume
IEEE Xplore All Conference Proceedings
IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)
IEEE Proceedings Order Plans (POP All) 1998-Present
DatabaseTitleList
Database_xml – sequence: 1
  dbid: RIE
  name: IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)
  url: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
  sourceTypes: Publisher
DeliveryMethod fulltext_linktorsrc
Discipline Sciences (General)
EndPage 571
ExternalDocumentID 5204871
Genre orig-research
GroupedDBID 6IE
6IF
6IK
6IL
6IN
AAJGR
AARBI
AAWTH
ALMA_UNASSIGNED_HOLDINGS
BEFXN
BFFAM
BGNUA
BKEBE
BPEOZ
CBEJK
IERZE
OCL
RIB
RIC
RIE
RIL
ID FETCH-LOGICAL-i175t-a68bb260ff41fbecd2277b7c3a53cb82be8d283b41577d4d29b4d79541ff24023
IEDL.DBID RIE
ISBN 0769535232
9780769535234
ISICitedReferencesCount 9
ISICitedReferencesURI http://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=Summon&SrcAuth=ProQuest&DestLinkType=CitingArticles&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=000274363300091&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com%2F%23%21%2Fsearch%3Fho%3Df%26include.ft.matches%3Dt%26l%3Dnull%26q%3D
IngestDate Wed Aug 27 01:36:48 EDT 2025
IsPeerReviewed false
IsScholarly false
LCCN 2008939122
Language English
LinkModel DirectLink
MergedId FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-i175t-a68bb260ff41fbecd2277b7c3a53cb82be8d283b41577d4d29b4d79541ff24023
PageCount 8
ParticipantIDs ieee_primary_5204871
PublicationCentury 2000
PublicationDate 2008-Sept.
PublicationDateYYYYMMDD 2008-09-01
PublicationDate_xml – month: 09
  year: 2008
  text: 2008-Sept.
PublicationDecade 2000
PublicationTitle Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Proceedings
PublicationTitleAbbrev SYNASC
PublicationYear 2008
Publisher IEEE
Publisher_xml – name: IEEE
SSID ssj0000558892
Score 1.4563719
Snippet Motivated by software metrics, several process metrics for measuring internal (structural) process attributes have been proposed. Integrated in validated...
SourceID ieee
SourceType Publisher
StartPage 564
SubjectTerms Concrete
Costs
Design for experiments
Humans
measurement approach
metric
Process design
process understandability
Scientific computing
Software algorithms
Software measurement
Software metrics
Time measurement
Title Towards Validating Prediction Systems for Process Understandability: Measuring Process Understandability
URI https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5204871
WOSCitedRecordID wos000274363300091&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com%2F%23%21%2Fsearch%3Fho%3Df%26include.ft.matches%3Dt%26l%3Dnull%26q%3D
hasFullText 1
inHoldings 1
isFullTextHit
isPrint
link http://cvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwlZ07T8MwEMetUjEwQWkRb3lgAInQPOzYZkMVFQNUlfpQmar4BV3Sqg8kvj2-xA0MMLAlkS1FPll3Pt__dwhdCUJsmoUCFD0qIJySQJIkC7TRYZxBX4Gifdv4mfV6fDIR_Rq6rbQwxpii-MzcwWNxl6_nagOpsjYFyiwIxncYS0utVpVPCSnlXPiTuQBoSRJ7wM72nXhoYxSK9uC19zDolLWUoHb_0Vql8Czd_f_90wFqfUv0cL9yPg1UM_khavidusLXHid900Tvw6IydoXHLuQGMUP-5mbC_QzYBHtkOXbBK_aqATyqFC8lxfvzHr8UucRy7h-DWmjUfRx2ngLfXyGYuaBhHWQpl9KdZ6wlkXW21HHMmGQqyWiiJI-l4dpFH9L5eMY00bGQRDNB3WgLlzLJEarn89wcIywTmilujQWCoNRccMUB9Z7aSCmb2RPUhKWbLkqExtSv2unvn8_Q3rYsI4zOUX293JgLtKs-1rPV8rKw-xc0j61J
linkProvider IEEE
linkToHtml http://cvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwlZ1LS8NAEMeXUgU9aW3Ft3vwoGBsHptm15sUS8U2FPqgnkr2pb2k0rSC396dZBs96MFbEnYh7CbM7Mz8f4PQFSNEtxKXgaJHOISGxOEkSByppOsn0Fcgb9826UVxTKdTNqig21ILo5TKi8_UHVzmuXy5EGsIlTVDoMyCYHwLOmdZtVYZUXHDkFJmz-YMsCWBbxE7m3tisY2ey5rDl_hh2C6qKUHv_qO5Sm5bOnv_e6t91PgW6eFBaX5qqKLSA1Sz_2qGry1Q-qaO3kZ5bWyGJ8bpBjlD-mpmQoYGdgVbaDk27iu2ugE8LjUvBcf78x7382hiMfePQQ007jyO2l3Hdlhw5sZtWDlJi3JuTjRaE0-b3ZS-H0U8EkESBoJTnysqjf_BjZWPIkmkzziREQvNaA1pmeAQVdNFqo4Q5kGYCKqVBoYgl5RRQQH23tKeEDrRx6gOSzd7LyAaM7tqJ78_vkQ73VG_N-s9xc-naHdTpOF6Z6i6Wq7VOdoWH6t5trzIv4EvaGOwkg
openUrl ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=proceeding&rft.title=Symbolic+and+Numeric+Algorithms+for+Scientific+Computing%2C+Proceedings&rft.atitle=Towards+Validating+Prediction+Systems+for+Process+Understandability%3A+Measuring+Process+Understandability&rft.au=Melcher%2C+J.&rft.au=Seese%2C+D.&rft.date=2008-09-01&rft.pub=IEEE&rft.isbn=9780769535234&rft.spage=564&rft.epage=571&rft_id=info:doi/10.1109%2FSYNASC.2008.24&rft.externalDocID=5204871
thumbnail_l http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780769535234/lc.gif&client=summon&freeimage=true
thumbnail_m http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780769535234/mc.gif&client=summon&freeimage=true
thumbnail_s http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780769535234/sc.gif&client=summon&freeimage=true