13. Software Plagiarism Detection
As mentioned previously, the unauthorized copying of software is a growing problem. In this chapter I discuss the field of study in computer science that has historically been called “software plagiarism detection.” This is a good starting point for understanding what source code correlation is and what it is not.
13.1 The History of Plagiarism Detection
Software plagiarism has been an area of study within computer science at least since the 1970s. In 1987 J. A. W. Faidhi and S. K. Robinson of Brunel University published their paper entitled “An Empirical Approach for Detecting Program Similarity and Plagiarism within a University Programming Environment.” Faidhi and Robinson characterize six levels of modifications ...
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