Abstract. An overview of the concept of program similarity is presented. It divides similarity into two types--syntactic and semantic-and provides a review of eight categories of m...
Andrew Walenstein, Mohammad El-Ramly, James R. Cor...
Code duplication, plausibly caused by copying source code and slightly modifying it, is often observed in large systems. Clone detection and documentation have been investigated b...
Magdalena Balazinska, Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenai...
Background: Gene duplication events have played a significant role in genome evolution, particularly in plants. Exhaustive searches for all members of a known gene family as well ...
Copy-paste programming is dangerous as it may lead to hidden dependencies between different parts of the system. Modifying clones is not always straight forward, because we might ...
The goal of a clone detection tool is to identify sections of code that are duplicated in a program. The result of the detection is presented in some manner for the user to view, ...