Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal
contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain …

Code cloning refers to the duplication of source code. It is the most common way of reusing
source code in software development. If a bug is identified in one segment of code, all the …

Programmers often write code that has similarity to existing code written somewhere. A tool
that could help programmers to search such similar code would be immensely useful. Such …

Recurring vulnerabilities widely exist and remain undetected in real-world systems, which
are often resulted from reused code base or shared code logic. However, the potentially …

Measuring and evaluating source code similarity is a fundamental software engineering
activity that embraces a broad range of applications, including but not limited to code …

In this work we systematically review the recent advancements in code processing with
language models, covering 50+ models, 30+ evaluation tasks, 170+ datasets, and 700 …

Bad smells in code are indications of low code quality representing potential threats to the
maintainability and reusability of software. Code clone is a type of bad smells caused by …

Software clone detection is an active research area, which is very important for software
maintenance, bug detection, etc. The two pieces of cloned code reflect some similarities or …

Code clone detection is to find out code fragments with similar functionalities, which has
been more and more important in software engineering. Many approaches have been …

A code clone (in short, clone) is a code fragment that is identical or similar to other code
fragments in source code. Clones generated by a large number of changes to copy-and …