Ghassan Misherghi and Zhendong Su.
HDD: Hierarchical Delta Debugging.
In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering,
pages 142--151. ACM Press, New York, NY, 2006. (9% acceptance)
Lingxiao Jiang, Ghassan Misherghi, Zhendong Su, and Stephane Glondu.
Deckard: Scalable and Accurate Tree-based Detection of Code Clones.
In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering,
pages 96--105. ACM Press, New York, NY, 2006. (15% acceptance)
My masters thesis. Very similar to the HDD paper
above, but with syntactically correct simplifiers generated automatically from language
grammars.