The project summarized in this article aims at developing techniques to support access
control in Real-Time Distributed Collaborative Editors (RCE). The ever-increasing role of …

A key feature for most collaborative applications is their ability to distinguish access rights to
shared documents in a dynamic group of collaborators. To achieve high availability and …

Real-time Collaborative Editors (RCE) provide computer support for modifying
simultaneously shared documents, such as articles, wiki pages and programming source …

Multi-user applications generally lag behind in features or compatibility with single-user
applications. As a result, users are often not motivated to abandon their favorite single-user …

Collaborative Data Sharing is widely noticed to be essential for distributed systems. Among
several proposed strategies, conflict-free techniques are considered useful for serverless …

This study explores a new model for computer-based collaborative writing. A prototype
application was built to implement this model, and user tests were performed on the …

In large organizations people need to collaborate for meeting organizational goals in
number of ways. Collaboration platforms such as Google Docs offer a set of software …

Existing groupware toolkits are always built atop a programming language or system with
some enhancements or extensions to support the development of a certain category of …

Document collaboration applications, such as Google Docs or Microsoft Office Online, need
to ensure that all collaborators have a consistent view of the shared document, and usually …

Locking is a standard technique used in distributed computing and database systems to
ensure data integrity by prohibiting concurrent conflicting updates on shared data objects …