Consistency control for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration based on shared objects and activities

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 573-602

  Vogel, Jürgen ^a   Geyer, Werner ^b   Cheng, Li Te ^b   Muller, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity centric collaboration; ActivityExplorer; Consistency control; Object centric sharing; Peer to peer; Replication; Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PERFORMANCE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ACTIVITY-CENTRIC COLLABORATION; ACTIVITYEXPLORER; CONSISTENCY CONTROL; OBJECT-CENTRIC SHARING; PEER-TO-PEER; REPLICATION; SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 13644251121     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10606-004-5064-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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