IDENTIFYING CLONES IN DYNAMIC WEB SITES USING SIMILARITY THRESHOLDS

Andrea De Lucia, Giuseppe Scanniello, Genoveffa Tortora

2004

Abstract

We propose an approach to automatically detect duplicated pages in dynamic Web sites and on the analysis of both the page structure, implemented by specific sequences of HTML tags, and the displayed content. In addition, for each pair of dynamic pages we also consider the similarity degree of their scripting code. The similarity degree of two pages is computed using different similarity metrics for the different parts of a web page based on the Levenshtein string edit distance. We have implemented a prototype to automate the clone detection process on web applications developed using JSP technology and used it to validate our approach in a case study.

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in Harvard Style

De Lucia A., Scanniello G. and Tortora G. (2004). IDENTIFYING CLONES IN DYNAMIC WEB SITES USING SIMILARITY THRESHOLDS . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 391-396. DOI: 10.5220/0002597303910396


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Andrea De Lucia and Giuseppe Scanniello and Genoveffa Tortora},
title={IDENTIFYING CLONES IN DYNAMIC WEB SITES USING SIMILARITY THRESHOLDS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={391-396},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002597303910396},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - IDENTIFYING CLONES IN DYNAMIC WEB SITES USING SIMILARITY THRESHOLDS
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - De Lucia A.
AU - Scanniello G.
AU - Tortora G.
PY - 2004
SP - 391
EP - 396
DO - 10.5220/0002597303910396