@conference {Sager:2006:DSJ:1137983.1138000,
	title = {Detecting similar Java classes using tree algorithms},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories},
	series = {MSR {\textquoteright}06},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {65{\textendash}71},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {Similarity analysis of source code is helpful during development to provide, for instance, better support for code reuse. Consider a development environment that analyzes code while typing and that suggests similar code examples or existing implementations from a source code repository. Mining software repositories by means of similarity measures enables and enforces reusing existing code and reduces the developing effort needed by creating a shared knowledge base of code fragments. In information retrieval similarity measures are often used to find documents similar to a given query document. This paper extends this idea to source code repositories. It introduces our approach to detect similar Java classes in software projects using tree similarity algorithms. We show how our approach allows to find similar Java classes based on an evaluation of three tree-based similarity measures in the context of five user-defined test cases as well as a preliminary software evolution analysis of a medium-sized Java project. Initial results of our technique indicate that it (1) is indeed useful to identify similar Java classes, (2)successfully identifies the ex ante and ex post versions of refactored classes, and (3) provides some interesting insights into within-version and between-version dependencies of classes within a Java project.},
	keywords = {change analysis, clones, coogle, eclipse, famix, java, similarity, software evolution, software repositories, source code, tree similarity measures},
	isbn = {1-59593-397-2},
	doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138000},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138000},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/65Detecting.pdf},
	author = {Sager, Tobias and Bernstein, Abraham and Pinzger, Martin and Kiefer, Christoph}
}
@conference {Kakimoto:2006:USB:1137983.1138026,
	title = {Using software birthmarks to identify similar classes and major functionalities},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories},
	series = {MSR {\textquoteright}06},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {171{\textendash}172},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	keywords = {argouml, class, file, mining challenge, msr challenge, multi-dimensional scaling, similarity, software birthmark, source code},
	isbn = {1-59593-397-2},
	doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138026},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138026},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/171UsingSoftware.pdf},
	author = {Kakimoto, Takeshi and Monden, Akito and Kamei, Yasutaka and Tamada, Haruaki and Tsunoda, Masateru and Matsumoto, Ken-ichi}
}
