Collaborative version control in an agent-based hypertext environment

Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-145

  Dattolo, Antonina ^a   Loia, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Common Lisp Object System; Computer Supported Collaborative Work; Hypertext Systems; Object Oriented Concurrent Design; Version Control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; LISP (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); LOGIC PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS;

COMMON LISP OBJECT SYSTEM; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE WORK; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED CONCURRENT DESIGN; VERSION CONTROL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0030122744     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4379(96)00008-7     Document Type: Article

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