Department of Computer Engineering, Kyungnam University, Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea.

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Abstract—Software plays an important role in current computing environments, and it is protected as intellectual property of its author. However, the cases of software thefts are increasing every year. To deal with the problem, there have been researches on detecting software thefts. In this paper, we introduce technical methods for detecting software thefts, and compare characteristics of the methods according to several performance evaluation criteria.

Index Terms—Plagiarism detection, software birthmark, software theft detection, software watermark.

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Cite: Hyun-Il Lim, "Comparative Analysis of Technical Methods for Detecting Software Thefts," Journal of Computers vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 26-32, 2016.