This morning at CASCON 2014, the 24th Annual International Conference on
Computer Science and Software Engineering sponsored by IBM CAS Research,
Queen’s School of Computing Professors James Cordy and Thomas Dean (ECE cross-appointee),
along with their former student Nikita Synytskyy (now at Amazon), were awarded the
“Most Influential Paper” award for their CASCON 2004 paper
“Practical Language-Independent Detection of Near-Miss Clones”.
The Most Influential Paper is awarded each year to the contribution published in the
conference ten years ago that is judged to have had the greatest overall academic
and practical impact on the field. In addition to its 63 citations and 464 direct
descendant paper citations, the Awards Committee noted several references to the
paper in recently granted patents in the data management domain, beyond the
originally targeted source code and web site analysis domains, which provided further
evidence of the continued impact and industrial applicability of the work.
