Copy-Past Culture: Examining the Causes and Solutions to Source Code Plagiarism

Plagiarism Detection in Source Code

Examining the fields of plagiarism in students and providing preventive solutions

Background and purpose: plagiarism is one of the new phenomena of the academic environment in Iran, which includes different dimensions and types. Therefore, its recognition and rooting is the problem of this research. Therefore, the main goal of the current research is to investigate the context and institutional and individual factors affecting the formation of plagiarism in Iran and to provi...

Source Code Plagiarism in Computer Engineering Courses

In today’s university life, teachers are often confronted with plagiarism. A special form of plagiarism is source code plagiarism typically found in programming courses at universities and schools. Detecting or even preventing source code plagiarism is by no means a trivial task. Therefore, this paper explains and discusses different methods that can be used to prevent and detect source code pl...

Normalization based Stop-Word approach to Source Code Plagiarism Detection

This paper is a report of PES Institute of Technology’s participation in the Cross Language Detection of Source Code Reuse (CL-SOCO) task at FIRE 2015 [1]. We approach this task as text document plagiarism task, without considering formal programming language grammatical structure. We use normalization of commonly used identifiers to detect pair of programs which have the same objective. We als...

Requesting and Examining Computer Source Code

B efore making a discovery request for computer source code, an attorney should consult with the case's technical experts to decide what to request, and in what form. Your discovery request will turn on what claims are at issue : In different kinds of cases you will have different specific purposes for examining source code . In a patent infringement case, for example, you are looking for the p...