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	--publisher = {Elsevier Science Inc.},
	--address = {New York, NY, USA},
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}

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	year = {2014},
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} 

@Inproceedings {Meng:2015,
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@inproceedings{Kim:2012:testing, 
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booktitle={28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance}, 
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year={2012}, 
--month={Sept}, 
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@inproceedings{Vakilian:2012,
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	--series = {ICSE '12},
	year = {2012},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-1067-3},
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	year={2013}, 
	--month={Oct}, 
	pages={232-241}, 
	keywords={object-oriented programming;program diagnostics;recommender systems;software maintenance;JDeodorant;Qualitas Corpus;dependency sets;move method recommendation system;move method refactorings;object-oriented systems;static dependencies;Computer architecture;Couplings;Educational institutions;Feature extraction;System analysis and design;Time measurement;Dependency sets;Move method refactorings;Recommendation systems}, 
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@article{Tsantalis:2009,
	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander},
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	volume = {35},
	number = {3},
	month = may,
	year = {2009},
	issn = {0098-5589},
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	acmid = {1592367},
	publisher = {IEEE Press},
	address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
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}

@article{Bavota:2014,
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@article{Bavota:2011,
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@inproceedings{Hotta:2012,
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	year = {2012},
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	pages = {53-62},
	numpages = {10},
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	doi = {10.1109/CSMR.2012.16},
	acmid = {2192550},
	--publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
	--address = {Washington, DC, USA},
	keywords = {Code Clones, Refactoring, Form Template Method, Program Dependence Graph, Software Maintenance},
}

@article{Tairas:2012,
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}

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	booktitle = {3rd Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)},
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@inproceedings{Kim:2011,
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