Detecting clones across Microsoft.NET programming languages

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 405-414

  Al Omari, Farouq ^a   Keivanloo, Iman ^b   Roy, Chanchal K ^a   Rilling, Juergen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

binary; cross language clone detection; intermediate language; multi language; similarity component

Indexed keywords

BINARY; CLONE DETECTION; INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGES; MULTI-LANGUAGE; SIMILARITY COMPONENT;

LINGUISTICS; OPEN SYSTEMS; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

CLONING;

EID: 84872287323     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2012.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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