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Our research group has been working on code clones for more than 20 years. In this chapter, I review our work on merging clones published in 2008 (Higo et al. in J Soft Mainten Evolut 20:435–461, 2008 [3]), introduce two subsequent studies, and discuss prospects for future research.
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The journal changed its name in 2012 and is now called the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process.
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DCH means Dispersion in the Class Hierarchy.
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Higo, Y. (2021). Identifying Refactoring-Oriented Clones and Inferring How They Can Be Merged. In: Inoue, K., Roy, C.K. (eds) Code Clone Analysis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1927-4_13
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