Using code metric histograms and genetic algorithms to perform author identification for software forensics

Proceedings of GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2082-2089

  Lange, Robert Charles ^a   Mancoridis, Spiros ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Author identification; Genetic algorithm applications; Pygene; Software forensics; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM APPLICATIONS; PYGENE; SOFTWARE FORENSICS; SOFTWARE METRICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548108422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1276958.1277364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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