A multi-versioning algorithm for intention preservation in distributed real-time group editors

  • Authors:
  • Liyin Xue;Mehmet Orgun;Kang Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia;Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia;Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

  • Venue:
  • ACSC '03 Proceedings of the 26th Australasian computer science conference - Volume 16
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Intention preservation is an important aspect of consistency maintenance in real-time collaborative editing systems. The multi-version approach is able to preserve individual users' concurrent conflicting intentions in a consistent way. Various multi-versioning schemes have been proposed. In this paper, a version composition algorithm is devised for a new multiversioning scheme that can preserve users' contextual intentions.