External Design Metric De


De = e1 (inflows * outflows) + e2 (fan-in * fan-out)


where,
inflows
are the number of data entities passed to the module from superordinate of subordinate modules.
outflows
are the number of data entities passed from the module to superordinate or subordinate modules.
fan-in and fan-out
are the number of superordinate and subordinate modules, respectively, directly connected to the given module.
e1 and e2
are weights.

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