Dr. M. P. Schellekens 
Department of Computer Science
National University of Ireland, Cork

Title:

Measuring software complexity

Abstract:


CEOL, the Centre for Efficiency-Oriented Languages, has as prime focus to harness the analysis of 
software complexity through the development of new measuring tools. CEOL is the first centre to have 
developed a modular approach to measure the complexity of software, with particular application to the 
average-case time complexity. Real-Time software can guarantee that deadlines are met in safety 
critical situations and is widely applied in telephone exchanges, satellite communications, 
medical equipment, chemical-plant control, stock-market analysis and robotics. CEOL's mission is to 
improve software timing at source code level for Real-Time Programming Languages through a unique 
interdisciplinary approach that combines three areas: Semantics, Complexity and Real-Time Languages.  
CEOL also investigates Quantitative Semantics and Complexity Spaces. CEOL actively collaborates with 
industry, including the Real-Time Java group at Sun Microsystems,  and is currently supported by 
Science Foundation Ireland and Sun. We give an overview of CEOL research  on Complexity Analysis.