Similarity Detection in Java Programming Assignments

Conference Paper

• Conference Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Publication Abstract

• M.B. Menai and N. Al-Hassoun. “Similarity Detection in Java Programming Assignments”. Proceedings of the IEEE 2010 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Education (ICCSE 2010).
• We proposed a new plagiarism detection system, called CAPlag "Computing Assignment Plagiarism”. Our contribution consists in using a Java program profiling to extract the main program characteristics and a comparison method inspired by DNA sequencing.