Distinguishing copies from originals in software clones

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 41-48

  Krinke, Jens ^a   Gold, Nicolas ^a   Jia, Yue ^a   Binkley, David ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

clone detection; mining software archives; software evolution

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ASSISTANCE; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; CLONE DETECTION; MINING SOFTWARE ARCHIVES; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOURCE CODES; VERSION CONTROL SYSTEM; VERSION INFORMATION;

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; BIOLOGY; CLONING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954724462     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1808901.1808907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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