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Determining comprehensibility of a graphical model in a graphical modeling environment

  • US 8,572,504 B1
  • Filed: 12/09/2010
  • Issued: 10/29/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for determining a comprehensibility score of an executable graphical model generated in a graphical modeling environment, the method comprising:

  • analyzing, using a computer, the executable graphical model to identify one or more visual characteristics of one or more elements in the executable graphical model;

    determining, using the computer, the comprehensibility score of the executable graphical model based on the analyzing, the determining comprising;

    representing an ergonomic complexity of the executable graphical model using the comprehensibility score,where;

    the comprehensibility score is a function of the identified one or more visual characteristics of the one or more elements in the executable graphical model,the one or more elements represent;

    one or more entities in the executable graphical model, orone or more relationships in the executable graphical model,the comprehensibility score is based on a syntactic complexity of the executable graphical model, andthe syntactic complexity includes;

    a visual complexity created by a presence of the one or more entities in the executable graphical model, anda modeling complexity created by a functionality or a data structure of the one or more entities in the executable graphical model; and

    displaying, using the computer, the comprehensibility score of the executable graphical model.

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