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Objectives

The aim of this half-day workshop is to bring together researchers within the field of clone detection to critically assess the current state of research, and to establish new directions and partnerships for research.  A software clone is generally defined to be a copy or near-copy of a portion of code appearing elsewhere in a system.  Clones are frequently created when programmers "scavenge'' code, i.e., reuse code by copying and pasting a code fragment, often with modification.  The problem of detecting clones in systems is an established software engineering problem known to occur in many contexts, including during pattern detection, software refactoring and perfective maintenance, system quality evaluation, code compaction, and class library and web reengineering.   Various techniques have been proposed for automatically and semi-automatically detecting clones and refactoring them.  Work comparing and evaluating such tools is ongoing.

This workshop expands upon the First International Workshop on Detection of Software Clones, held in conjunction with ICSM'2002 and SCAM'2002 in Montreal in October of 2002.  The primary aims of this workshop are to:

• bring together researchers within the field
• clarify and assess the current state of research
• establish a list of new directions and open and critical research questions, and
• generate new research collaboration partnerships.

The scope of the workshop is the general field of clone detection techniques, theories, and applications.  Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

• software similarity models
• taxonomies of clone, redundancy, or duplication types
• clone detection techniques and methods
• tool and technique evaluation or comparison
• empirical studies of clones in systems or of clone detection
• benchmarking and benchmarking issues, including data format issues, benchmark types, subject system selection, etc.

Important Dates

• Oct 10, 2003:  Position papers due @ midnight EST ** EXTENDED **
  
• Oct 17, 2003:  Notification of acceptance
• Nov 13, 2003:  Workshop, at WCRE'2003 in
• Dec, 2003:  Camera-ready copy due ** EXTENDED: TBA **
  Victoria, BC, Canada
  

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