Design of a P2P infrastructure to support plagiarism detection mechanisms

Nowadays the Internet has become a reference on information retrieval. But this can be misused, as one can simply access information and take it as his own authorship. This constitutes an act of plagiarism. It has become increasingly common for people to do this, and tools to prevent this are in need. In order to help to deal with this relevant problem, this paper presents the PeerDetect, a new P2P middleware to support a plagiarism detection system. The proposed solution is based on a P2P network, where a plagiarism detection mechanism uses PeerDetect to distribute the effort of doing this detection among peers. The proposed approach allows us to reach a better performance and scalability.