A Clone Code Detection Method Based on Software Complex Network

This paper introduces complex network into software clone detection and proposes a clone code detection method based on software complex network feature matching. This method has the following properties. It builds a software network model with many added features and codes written with different languages can be detected by a single method. It reduces the space of code comparison, and it searches similar subnetworks to detect clones without knowing any clone codes information. This method can be used in detecting open source code which has been reused in software for security analysis.