Detecting similar repositories on GitHub

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Yun, David LO, PAVNEET SINGH KOCHHAR, XIA, Xin, LI, Quanlai, SUN, Jianling
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Recommendation System; Similar Repositories; GitHub; Information Retrieval; search engines; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering; Systems Architecture
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3615; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4616/viewcontent/Detecting_Similar_Repositories_on_GitHub_2017_SANER.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

GitHub contains millions of repositories among which many are similar with one another (i.e., having similar source codes or implementing similar functionalities). Finding similar repositories on GitHub can be helpful for software engineers as it can help them reuse source code, build prototypes, id...