An Approach to Identify Duplicated Web Pages
COMPSAC '02 Proceedings of the 26th International Computer Software and Applications Conference on Prolonging Software Life: Development and Redevelopment
Finding Function Clones in Web Applications
CSMR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Searching Service Repositories by Combining Semantic and Ontological Matching
ICWS '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
The TXL source transformation language
Science of Computer Programming - The fourth workshop on language descriptions, tools, and applications (LDTA'04)
Using Server Pages to Unify Clones in Web Applications: A Trade-Off Analysis
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Similarity search for web services
VLDB '04 Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 30
Clone detection in automotive model-based development
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
ICPC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
Comparison and evaluation of code clone detection techniques and tools: A qualitative approach
Science of Computer Programming
Towards clone detection in UML domain models
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume
Towards web services tagging by similarity detection
The smart internet
Function clone detection in web applications: a semiautomated approach
Journal of Web Engineering
An investigation of cloning in web applications
ICWE'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Web Engineering
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There are several tools and techniques developed over the past decade for detecting duplicated code in software. However, there exists a class of languages for which clone detection is ill-suited. We discovered one of these languages when we attempted to use clone detection to find similar web service operations in service descriptions written in the Web Service Description Language (WSDL). WSDL is structured in such a way that identifying units for comparison becomes a challenge. WSDL service descriptions contain specifications of one or more operations that are divided into pieces and intermingled throughout the description. In this paper, we describe a method of reorganizing them in order to leverage clone detection technology to identify similar services. We introduce the idea of contextual clones -- clones that can only be found by augmenting code fragments with related information referenced by the fragment to give it context. We demonstrate this idea for WSDL and propose other languages and situations for which contextual clones may be of interest.