An analysis of intention preservation in group editors

  • Authors:
  • Du Li;Rui Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA;Seismic Micro-Technology: Inc., Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Group editors allow a distributed group of users to collaboratively edit shared documents such as source code and web pages. As a well-accepted consistency control method in group editors, operational transformation (OT) is intuitively believed to be able to preserve operation intentions. However, intention preservation as a consistency constraint has not been rigorously formalized, making it difficult to design OT algorithms and prove their correctness. This work proposes a formalization of intention preservation and analyzes several OT-based approaches to achieving it.