research and analysis of structural hole and matching coefficient研究和分析结构洞和匹配系数.pdf

J. Software Engineering Applications, 2010, 3, 1080-1087 doi:10.4236/jsea.2010.311127 Published Online November 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jsea) Research and Analysis of Structural Hole and Matching Coefficient Penghua Cai, Hai Zhao, Hong Liu, Rong Pan, Zheng Liu, Hui Li Department of Information Science and Engineering, Northeast University, Shenyang, China. Email: caipenghua2008@ Received August 28th, 2010; revised September 18th, accepted September 23rd, 2010. ABSTRACT Measure is a map from the reality or experimental world to the mathematical world, through which people can more easily understand the properties of entities and the relationship between them. But the traditional software measure- ment methods have been unable to effectively measure this large-scale software. Therefore, trustworthy measurement gives an accurate measurement to these emerging features, providing valuable perspectives and different research di- mensions to understand software systems. The paper introduces the complex network theory to software measurement methods and proposes a statistical measurement methodology. First we study the basic parameters of the complex net- work, and then introduce two new measurement parameters: structural holes, matching coefficient. Keywords: Large-Scale Software, Trustworthy Measurement, Structural Holes, Matching Coefficient 1. Introduction structure of competition [3]. It is form social network research. In brief, structural holes are the relationship Now large software network is increasingly showing between the two non-duplicate persons. In Figure 1, we “small world” and “scale-free”-characteristics of com- use software network formed by four nodes A, B, C, D to plex networks. The results of studying complex networks