Deducing similarities in Java sources from bytecodes

USENIX 1998 Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages

  Baker, Brenda S ^a   Manber, Udi ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

BYTECODES; JAVA PROGRAM; JAVA SOURCE; SOURCE FILES;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 85084164490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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