Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'02)
Editing Any Version at Any Time: a consistency maintenance mechanism in Internet-based collaborative environments
Taiwan, ROC
December 17-December 20
ISBN: 0-7695-1760-9
This paper investigates the multi-version approach to consistency maintenance in Internet-based real-time collaborative editing systems. It proposes a new multi-versioning scheme that is able to preserve individual users? intentions while guaranteeing convergent document states. The scheme has been implemented in Java in a prototype called POLO.
Index Terms:
Intention preservation, multi-versioning, consistency maintenance, group editors, CSCW, Internet computing.
Citation:
Liyin Xue, Mehmet Orgun, Kang Zhang, "Editing Any Version at Any Time: a consistency maintenance mechanism in Internet-based collaborative environments," icpads, pp.69, Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'02), 2002