• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.6
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• pp.683-694
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• 2003

We present X-tree Diff, a change detection algorithm for tree-structured data. Our work is motivated by need to monitor massive volume of web documents and detect suspicious changes, called defacement attack on web sites. From this context, our algorithm should be very efficient in speed and use of memory space. X-tree Diff uses a special ordered labeled tree, X-tree, to represent XML/HTML documents. X-tree nodes have a special field, tMD, which stores a 128-bit hash value representing the structure and data of subtrees, so match identical subtrees form the old and new versions. During this process, X-tree Diff uses the Rule of Delaying Ambiguous Matchings, implying that it perform exact matching where a node in the old version has one-to one corrspondence with the corresponding node in the new, by delaying all the others. It drastically reduces the possibility of wrong matchings. X-tree Diff propagates such exact matchings upwards in Step 2, and obtain more matchings downwsards from roots in Step 3. In step 4, nodes to ve inserted or deleted are decided, We aldo show thst X-tree Diff runs on O(n), woere n is the number of noses in X-trees, in worst case as well as in average case, This result is even better than that of BULD Diff algorithm, which is O(n log(n)) in worst case, We experimented X-tree Diff on reat data, which are about 11,000 home pages from about 20 wev sites, instead of synthetic documets manipulated for experimented for ex[erimentation. Currently, X-treeDiff algorithm is being used in a commeercial hacking detection system, called the WIDS(Web-Document Intrusion Detection System), which is to find changes occured in registered websites, and report suspicious changes to users.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.29-37
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• 2010

The change detection of XML documents is a major research area. However, though XML becomes a file format for Hangul documents, research on change detection of Hangul documents based on the characteristics of Hangul documents is rather scarce. Since format data in Hangul documents are very large, which is different from ordinary XML documents, it is not proper to apply general XML change detection algorithms such as X-treeDiff+ to Hangul documents without any change. In this paper, we propose new contents-based matching algorithm and implement it in X-treeDiff+. The result of our testing shows better performance for most documents in editing process.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.14D no.2
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• pp.145-156
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• 2007

Recently, the needs for effective real time change detection algorithms for XML/HTML documents and increased in such fields as the detection of defacement attacks to web documents, the version management, and so on. Especially, those applications of real time change detection for large number of XML/HTML documents require fast heuristic algorithms to be used in real time environment, instead of algorithms which compute minimal cost-edit scripts. Existing heuristic algorithms are fast in execution time, but do not provide satisfactory edit script. In this paper, we present existing algorithms XyDiff and X-tree Diff, analyze their problems and propose algorithm X-tree Diff which improve problems in existing ones. X-tree Diff+ has similar performance in execution time with existing algorithms, but it improves matching ratio between nodes from two documents by refining matching process based on the notion of efficiency of matching.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.80-89
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• 2011

While detecting changes in XML documents has emerged as a major research area, the level of research on edit scripts, which are the result of the change detection, is not far from satisfactory. In this paper, we present X-treeESgen, the algorithm generating edit scripts used in X-treeDiff+, a change detection algorithm for XML documents. X-treeESgen shows the time complexity of O(n), and support move and copy operations in addition to the basic set that is update, insert, and delete operations. Note that no other change detection algorithm provide all the operations. Also, since the process of generating edit scripts in X-treeESgen is designed independent of the process of matching, various tuning techniques may be applied.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.44-53
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• 2010

Program plagiarism is a significant factor to reduce the quality of education in computer programming. In this paper, we propose the technique of identifying similar or identical programs in order to prevent students from reckless copying their programming assignments. Existing approaches for identifying similar programs are mainly based on fingerprints or pattern matching for text documents. Different from those existing approaches, we propose an approach based on the program structur. Using paring progrmas, we first transform programs into XML documents by representing syntactic components in the programs with elements in XML document, then run X-tree Diff+, which is the change detection algorithm for XML documents, and produce an edit script as a change. The decision of similar or identical programs is made on the analysis of edit scripts in terms of program plagiarism. Analysis of edit scripts allows users to understand the process of conversion between two programs so that users can make qualitative judgement considering the characteristics of program assignment and the degree of plagiarism.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.1343-1346
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• 2003

현재 많은 정보시스템들이 웹을 기반으로 다양한 전자 문서들을 제공하고 있다. 이러한 환경 하에서 지속적인 갱신이 이루어지는 문서들을 관리하는 응용분야에서는 이들 문서들에 대한 효율적 관리 기법이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 최근 제안된 X-treeDiff를 통해 계산된 편집 스크지트를 기반으로 한 XML 문서들에 대한 버전 관리 시스템을 제안하고 이에 대한 프로토타입의 구현을 보인다. 제안된 버전 관리 시스템은 CVS와 같은 대부분의 텍스트 기반 시스템과는 달리 트리 데이터 구조의 문서를 위한 시스템으로 XML과 같은 트리구조 문서 관리에 효과적이다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.1-14
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• 2019

Since most documents used in web, XML, office applications are tree-structured, diff, merge, and version control for tree-structured documents in multi-user environments are crucial tasks. However research on edit scripts which is a basis for them is in primitive stage. In this paper, we present a document model for understanding the change of tree-structured documents as edit scripts are executed, and propose a method of switching adjacent edit operations on tree-structured documents based on the analysis of the effects of edit operations. Mostly, edit scripts which are produced as the results of diff on tree-structured documents only consist of basic operations such as update, insert, delete. However, when move and copy are included in edit scripts, because of the characteristics of their complex operation, it is often that edit scripts are generated to execute in two passes. In this paper, using the proposed method of switching edit operations, we present an algorithm of transforming the edit scripts of X-treeESgen, which are designed to execute in two passes, into the ones that can be executed in one pass.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.16D no.4
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• pp.497-506
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• 2009

The method of effectively merging XML documents becomes necessary, as the use of XML is popular and the collaborative editing is required in the areas such as office documents and scientific documents editing works. As a solution to this problem, in this paper we present a theoretical framework for merging individual editing works by muli-users to a same source document. Different from existing approaches which merge documents themselves when they are merged, we represent editing works with a series of edit operations applied to a source document, which is called a edit script, merge those edit scripts by multi-users, and apply the merged one to the source document so that we can achieve the same effect of merging documents. In order to do this, assuming edit scripts based on insertion and deletion edit operations, we define notions such as static edit scripts, the intervention between edit scripts and the conflict between the ones, then propose the conflict conditions between edit scripts and the method of adjusting edit scripts when merged. This approach is effective in reducing network overhead in distributed environments and also in version management systems because of preserving the semantics of individual editing works.