But once someone has looked at those portions of the Pointing out the parts of programs that are worth a more detailedĮxamination. Thinking about what Moss provides is that it saves teachers and teaching staff a lot of time by Go and look at the parts of the code that Moss highlights and make aĭecision about whether there is plagiarism or not. Plagiarism is a statement that someone copied codeĭeliberately without attribution, and while Moss automatically detects program similarity, it What is Moss Not? Moss is not a system forĬompletely automatically detecting plagiarism. The algorithm behind moss is a significant improvement over otherĬheating detection algorithms (at least, over those known to us). Since its development in 1994, Moss has been veryĮffective in this role. To date, the mainĪpplication of Moss has been in detecting plagiarism in programmingĬlasses.
Moss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity) is an automatic system for determining I am hopeful it will be back up within a few days. Unfortunately the hardware failed while I was away on a trip. JAs many (many!) people have noticed, the Moss server has been down for all of July.New registrations are not yet working, but people with existing accounts can submit jobs. There may be some more tuning and possibly downtime in the coming weeks, but any outages should be brief. ApThere was an outage lasting a few hours today, the first since last summer, but everything is back up.I've made some changes to the disk management software that should prevent these problems from recurring. JThere were two outages over the last couple of days that lasted no more than a hour each (I think).Here is a PHP version of the submission script.And here is a Java version of the submission script.Community contributions (incuding a Windows submission GUI from Shane May, thanks!) are now in their own section on this page.Thanks to Chrstophe Troestler for an OCaml client for Moss.
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