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Clone Detection via Structural Abstraction Evans, William S. Fraser, Christoph W. Ma, Fei Clone Detection This paper describes the design, implementation, and application of a new algorithm to detect cloned code. It operates on the abstract syntax trees formed by many compilers as an intermediate representation. It extends prior work by identifying clones even when arbitrary subtrees have been changed. On a 440,000-line code corpus, 20- 50%of the clones it detected were missed by previous methods. The method also identifies cloning in declarations, so it is somewhat more general than conventional procedural abstraction. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik William S. Evans and Christoph W. Fraser and Fei Ma 2008 Is Part Of Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8261, Structure-Based Compression of Complex Massive Data (2008) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/DagSemProc.08261.7 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-16784 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08261.7 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode