The 9th CREST Open Workshop 

Code Provenance and Clone Detection

 

Date:

Tuesday, 23rd November, 2010

 

Venue:

Lethaby Room

Mary Ward House (Directions)

 

Overview:

Until recently, clone detection was mainly used to find the source code parts of a system that have been copied. However, the availability of clone detection techniques and tools made it possible to apply them to other areas of interest, for example, code provenance. Research has shifted from support to answer the question "Where is code duplicated?" to "Where is this code coming from and what happened to it?". Answers to the second question are needed in the area of source code management, copyright auditing, plagiarism detection, etc. This workshop will explore advanced clone detection and related areas in a discussion-oriented setting.

 

Keynote:

Licensing is Software too: Achievements and Challenges in Source Code Provenance Analysis

Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy

ABSTRACT: Software licenses determine, from a legal point of view, the way in which Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) can be (re)distributed, and how component released under different licenses can be inter-connected. This talks advocates that, when analyzing a software system for various purposes, such as doing a dependence analysis, studying software evolution, or determining the provenance a source code artifact, the content of licensing stated in a source code file or in a component is something that plays a crucial role, and that cannot be ignored. The talk outlines how licensing can influence the direction in which source code migrates from one system towards another, how licensing can determine architectural changes in a software system, or how it can even determine the success or failure of a project or of its competitor. Also, it shows that licensing issues are bugs too, fixing which is nothing but trivial. This opens the roads towards a multi-disciplinary research areas, involving experts in source code analysis, text mining, and laws.

BIOGRAPHY: Massimiliano Di Penta is assistant professor at the University of Sannio, Department of Engineering, Italy. He received his laurea degree in Computer Engineering in 1999 and his PhD in Computer Engineering in 2003. His research interests include software maintenance and evolution, reverse engineering, empirical software engineering, search-based software engineering service-centric software engineering. He is author of over 130 papers appeared on journals, conferences and workshops. He serves and has served in the organizing and program committees of several conferences such as ICSE, ASE, ICSM, ICPC, CSMR, GECCO, MSR, SCAM, WCRE, and many others. He has been general chair of SCAM 2010, SSBSE 2010, WSE 2008, general co-chair of WCRE 2008, and program co-chair of SSBSE 2009, WCRE 2006 and 2007, IWPSE 2007, WSE 2007, SCAM 2006, STEP 2005, and of other workshops. He is steering committee member of ICPC, SCAM, CSMR, WCRE, IWPSE, and SSBSE. He is in the editorial board of the Empirical Software Engineering Journal edited by Springer.

 

 

Programme:

(Talks will be 20 minutes allowing 15 minutes for discussion and questions.)

09:00    Arrival, Coffee and Pastries

09:15    Welcome and Introductions (Slides, Video)

              Jens Krinke, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

09:30    Licensing is Software too: Achievements and Challenges in Source Code Provenance Analysis (Slides, Video_1, Video_2)

              Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy

10:30 - 11:00    Refreshment

11:00    Techniques to Detect License Violations in Open-source Systems (Slides, Video)

              Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany

11:35    Approaches to detection of source code plagiarism amongst students (Slides, Video)

              Mike Joy, Warwick University, UK

12:10    Clone Detection in Natural Language Software Artifacts: Techniques and Applications  (Slides, Video)

              Elmar Juergens, Technical University of Munich, Germany

12:45 - 13:45    Lunch at the venue

13:45    Finding Clones in Max/MSP Patches (Audio)

              Nicolas Gold, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

14:20    Detection of Chained Clone and Its Application (Slides, Video)

              Norihiro Yoshida, Osaka University, Japan

14:55    Scalable clone detection and elimination for functional programming languages (Slides, Video)

              Huiqing Li and Simon Thompson, University of Kent, UK

15:30 - 16:00    Refreshment

16:00    A Mutation / Injection-based Automatic Framework for Evaluating Code Clone Detection Tools (Slides, Video)

              Chanchal Roy, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

16:35    What happened to my clone? (Slides, Video_1, Video_2)

              Jens Krinke, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

17:10    Software Bertillonage:  Determining the Provenance of Software Entities (Slides, Video)

              Michael Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada

17:45    Wrap up and Close

 

 

 

 

 

This workshop is supported by the following sponsors:

 

 

 

Registered Attendees: (Get registered Here)

1. Nadia Alshahwan, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
2. Khalid Alzarooni, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
3. Kelly Androutsopoulos, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
4. Sue Black, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
5. David Clark, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
6. Céline Dandois, University of Namur, Belgium
7. Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
8. Mateusz Dykiert, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
9. Michael Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada
10. Nicolas Gold, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
11. Nils Göde, University of Bremen, Germany
12. Tracy Hall, Brunel University, UK
13. Jan Harder, University of Bremen, Germany
14. Mark Harman, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
15. Sebastian Hunt, City University London, UK
16. Syed Islam, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
17. Yue Jia, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
18. Derek M. Jones, Knowledge Software Ltd, UK
19. Mike Joy, University of Warwick, UK
20. Elmar Juergens, Technical University of Munich, Germenay
21. Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany
22. Jens Krinke, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
23. Huiqing Li, University of Kent, UK
24. John Lyle, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
25. Matthew Moroz, SECReT Centre, UCL
26. Jian Ren, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
27. Daniel Rodriguez, University of Alcala, Spain
28. Chanchal Roy, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
29. Sandro Schulze, University of Magdeburg, Germany
30. Simon Thompson, University of Kent, UK
31. Akadej Udomchaiporn, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
32. Shmuel Ur, Shmuel Ur Innovation, Israel
33. Shin Yoo, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
34. Norihiro Yoshida, Osaka University, Japan
35. Min Zhang, University of Hertfordshire, UK
36. Yuanyuan Zhang, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL