A generic approach to supporting diagram differencing and merging for collaborative design

20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 204-213

  Mehra, Akhil ^a   Grundy, John ^a   Hosking, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CASE tools; Merging; Version control; Visual differencing

Indexed keywords

CASE TOOLS; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; COMPONENT BASED; DIFFERENTIATION TOOL; GENERIC APPROACH; META-CASE; NEW APPROACHES; PLUG-INS; TEAM MEMBERS; TEXT DOCUMENT; TEXT FILE; VERSION CONTROL;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

MERGING;

EID: 33750305193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1101908.1101940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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