A partial list of the topics is as follows (this list is by no means exhaustive, and it is a goal of the workshop to further extend it):

• Use cases for clones and clone management in the software lifecycle
• Experiences with clones and clone management in practice
• Types and nature of clones in software systems
• Causes and effects of clones
• Techniques and algorithms for clone detection, search, analysis, and management
• Clone and clone pattern visualization
• Tools and systems for detecting software clones
• Applications of clone detection and analysis
• System architecture and clones
• Effect of clones to system complexity and quality
• Clone analysis in families of similar systems
• Measures of code similarity
• Economic and trade-off models for clone removal
• Evaluation and benchmarking of detection methods
• Licensing and plagiarism issues
• Clone-aware software design and development
• Refactoring through clone analysis
• Higher-level clones in models and designs
• Clone evolution and variation
• Role of clones in software system evolution