Shared information and program plagiarism detection

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1545-1551

  Chen, Xin ^a   Francia, Brent ^b   Li, Ming ^b   McKinnon, Brian ^c   Seker, Amit ^c  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Kolmogorov complexity; Program plagiarism detection; Shared information

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; HEURISTIC METHODS;

KOLMOGOROV COMPLEXITY; PROGRAM PLAGIARISM DETECTION;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 3042606353     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2004.830793     Document Type: Letter

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