Plagiarism Detection in Program Codes Using Mapping Technique

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to introduce the problem of plagiarism and propose a method for plagiarism detection in program codes. In the first part of this paper the basic definition of plagiarism is described. Further in the paper the principle of preprocessing and localization process for signs of plagiarism is introduced. The last part of this paper presents an algorithm for comparison of the detected signs to get the best results possible. The detector was tested on student projects from the BTBIO study program.