Plagiarism Detection Systems

Abstract

Plagiarism is an inappropriate practice in which a person makes use of the words and ideas of another person without fully acknowledging the person. Presently, most tertiary institutions' student's project work in Nigeria is stored on shelves which can make it impossible to compare one or more projects to determine if plagiarism has been committed. When manually done, this is inefficient and tedious for any individual to be picking files one by one and comparing against other files to determine the occurrence of plagiarism. The developed system when subjected to a test of plagiarism indicates a 40% successful match of words in the body of the thesis. JAVA Programming Language is used for software development. To accomplish this task using this language the following tools was used, the JAVA development kit 1.7, Netbeans source code editor 7.4, MySQL database management 5.0 for back end support, fireworks graphics editor for the graphics. The benefits of implementing this system are that it could save time for academic staff trying to detect plagiarism in student's project and mitigate plagiarism within the institution.

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