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Achieving convergence, causality preservation, and intention preservation in real-time cooperative editing systems
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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- Authors
- Sun, C., Jia, X., Zhang, Y., Yang, Y., & Chen, D.
- Venue
- ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
- Published
- 1998-03
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 63-108
- ISSN
- 1073-0516 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7325
- OpenAlex
- W2151943351
- Cited by
- 585
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 16.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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