Title: Detecting Disguised Plagiarism,
Abstract: Source code plagiarism detection is a problem that has been addressed several
times before; and several tools have been developed for that purpose. In this
research project we investigated a set of possible disguises that can be
mechanically applied to plagiarized source code to defeat plagiarism detection
tools. We propose a preprocessor to be used with existing plagiarism detection
tools to "normalize" source code before checking it, thus making such disguises
ineffective.