Fourth International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC)
Katsuro Inoue, Stan Jarzabek, James R. Cordy, Rainer Koshke · 2010
Software clones are identical or similar pieces of code. They are often the result of copy--and--paste activities as ad-hoc code reuse by programmers. Software clones research is of high relevance for the industry. Many researchers have reported high rates of code cloning in both industrial and open-source systems.