Comparative Analysis of Technical Methods for Detecting Software Thefts

Abstract

Abstract:Software plays an important role in current computing environments, and it is protected as intellectual property of its author. However, the cases of software thefts are increasing every year. To deal with the problem, there have been researches on detecting software thefts. In this paper, we introduce technical methods for detecting software thefts, and compare characteristics of the methods according to several performance evaluation criteria.