This paper was accepted for publication in the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal in December 2018 and appeared in Volume 24, Issue 4 (August 2019). The paper reports completely novel contributions that are not reported before in any prior work. No part of it has been presented at a conference or journal before. Code cloning is a well-established research topic with a large number of publications at previous ICSE editions. The original journal paper can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09697-7. Moreover, the Siamese tool and the data sets are available online at https://github.com/UCL-CREST/Siamese
Thong Hoang Singapore Management University, Singapore, Hong Jin Kang School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Julia Lawall Inria, David Lo Singapore Management University