With model-based development becoming an increasingly common development methodology in embedded systems engineering, models
have become an important asset of the the software development process. Therefore, techniques for the automatic detection
of clones in those models have been developed to improve their maintainability. As these approaches currently only consider
syntactic clones, the detection of clones is limited to syntactically equivalent copies. Using the concept of normal forms,
these approaches can be extended to also cover semantic clones with identical behavior but different structure. The submission
presents a generalized concept of clones for Simulink models, describes a pattern-based normal-form approach, and discusses
results of the application of an implementation of this approach.