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Achieving convergence, causality preservation, and intention preservation in real-time cooperative editing systems

Editor: Jonathan Grudin Authors:

Chengzheng Sun,

David ChenAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Volume 5, Issue 1

Pages 63 - 108

https://doi.org/10.1145/274444.274447

Published: 01 March 1998 Publication History

Abstract

Real-time cooperative editing systems allow multiple users to view and edit the same text/graphic/image/multimedia document at the same time for multiple sites connected by communication networks. Consistency maintenance is one of the most significant challenges in designing and implementing real-time cooperative editing systems. In this article, a consistency model, with properties of convergence, causality preservation, and intention preservation, is proposed as a framework for consistency maintenance in real-time cooperative editing systems. Moreover, an integrated set of schemes and algorithms, which support the proposed consistency model, are devised and discussed in detail. In particular, we have contributed (1) a novel generic operation transformation control algorithm for achieving intention preservation in combination with schemes for achieving convergence and causality preservation and (2) a pair of reversible inclusion and exclusion transformation algorithms for stringwise operations for text editing. An Internet-based prototype system has been built to test the feasibility of the proposed schemes and algorithms

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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Volume 5, Issue 1

March 1998

108 pages

ISSN:1073-0516

EISSN:1557-7325

DOI:10.1145/274444

Editor:
Jonathan Grudin
University of California, Irvine

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