DePlag

Source code similarity is a well-studied area and is applied across many application domains, including (Academic) Source Code Plagiarism Detection, Code Clone Detection, and Software Theft Detection.

The DePlag team has developed some innovative approaches. The preliminary evaluation suggests that these approaches have great accuracy and can be used in practice.

This project is going to investigate ethical use, licencing and IP issues for commercialising these research findings, which will pave a pathway towards publicly accessible tools that will ensure the authenticity of tertiary computing education; and aid in the detection of code clones to enforce software copy-rights and protect IPs.