[PDF][PDF] Operation transforms for a distributed shared spreadsheet

CR Palmer, GV Cormack - Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on …, 1998 - dl.acm.org
CR Palmer, GV Cormack
Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, 1998dl.acm.org
ABSTRACT The Distributed Operation Dansform(dOPT), pr~ posed by Efi and Gibbs, is used
to dfie concurrently updatable shared objects. Eh and Gibbs give the OP eration tr~ orrus
that d&e a simple shared text editor supporting single chmacter insertions and deletions on
a hear btim. We report here on the construction of operation transforms for a more
sophisticated group nwe appficatiou a shared spreadsheet. We identify a set of abstract
operations that &aracterize the operations on a spreadsheet. Using Cormack's Cdtius for …
Abstract
The Distributed Operation Dansform(dOPT), pr~ posed by Efi and Gibbs, is used to dfie concurrently updatable shared objects. Eh and Gibbs give the OP eration tr~ orrus that d&e a simple shared text editor supporting single chmacter insertions and deletions on a hear btim. We report here on the construction of operation transforms for a more sophisticated group nwe appficatiou a shared spreadsheet. We identify a set of abstract operations that &aracterize the operations on a spreadsheet. Using Cormack’s Cdtius for Concurrent Update, which extends and corrects dOPT, m’egive the tr~ forms on these operations necessary to d~ e a shared spreadsheet.~ re use the transforms to btid a shared version of SC, the Unix spreadsheet due to Goshg.
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