Plagiarism Detection Tool for Programs

Abstract: Plagiarism is an act of Fraud which involves copying someone else�s work and stating it as our own without giving proper credit to that person. Plagiarism was seen earlier in various fields such as literature, science etc. Nowadays Plagiarism can also be seen in Programs especially in colleges where programming assignments are performed. Plagiarism is an easy to do task, but very difficult to detect without proper tool support. This report presents an overview of the tool which would be developed for detecting plagiarism. The tool would help detect plagiarism efficiently and help the faculty grade the students effectively

Keywords: Plagiarism, Program similarity, Karp Rabin, Tokenization.