Designing a vortal for detecting Java programs cyberplagiarism

Plagiarism of computer programs is an ever-increasing problem in higher education. A growing number of students are using programs from the Web in their submissions without properly acknowledging the source. This problem is particularly critical for Java courses due to its growing popularity as for its platform-independence and network-centric features. This article introduces a new web-based architecture for detecting cyberplagiarism of Java programs. It is presented as a learning vortal with deep crawling capability.