In multi-synchronous collaboration users replicate shared data, modify it and redistribute
modified versions of this data without the need of a central authority. However, in this model …

In the push-pull-clone collaborative editing model widely used in distributed version control
systems users replicate shared data, modify it and redistribute modified versions of this data …

Nowadays, information technologies provide users ability to work with anyone, at any time,
from everywhere and with several heterogeneous devices. This evolution fosters a new …

Instead of delegating control over private data to single large corporations, in friend-to-friend
(F2F) systems users take control over their data into their own hands and they communicate …

Most commonly used collaborative systems are provided by large service providers. While
these collaborative services offer very interesting functionalities, they feature certain …

Nowadays, we assist to an explosion of mobile applications due to the rapid development of
mobile devices, which are becoming the device of choice for people to collaborate with …

Within last years multi-synchronous collaborative editing systems became widely used. Multi-
synchronous collaboration maintains multiple, simultaneous streams of activity which …

Collaborative working is increasingly popular, but it presents challenges due to the need for
high responsiveness and disconnected work support. To address these challenges the data …

With the development of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), people's work
has become much more efficient by using groupware systems that support collaborative …

Engineering design applications require the support of long transactions in cooperative
environments. The problem of the existing copy/update/merge approaches is that the partial …