SELF-PLAGIARISM IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.

The article presents information on self-plagiarism in computer science. Students submit assignments inherited from their friends, online paper-mills provide term papers on popular topics, and occasionally researchers are found falsifying data or publishing the work of others as their own. Self-plagiarism occurs when authors reuse portions of their previous writings in subsequent research papers. Occasionally, the derived paper is simply a retitled and reformatted version of the original one, but more frequently it is assembled from bits and pieces of previous work. Incorporating texts or ideas from previously published work while unaware of the existence of that work. Incorporating texts or ideas from previously published work when writing to a community different from that in which the original work was published. Missing from the ACM and IEEE policy documents is any discussion of what the consequences of ignoring the rules and guidelines might be and whose responsibility it is to prevent plagiarized and self-plagiarized papers from being published. In contrast, most university course syllabi address the definition of plagiarism and who will look for it, as well as its potential consequences.