NDLI: Maintaining constraints expressed as formulas in collaborative systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Kai Lin Chen, D. Dromey, G. Chengzheng Sun
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Griffith Univ., Brisbane, QLD (Kai Lin; Chen, D.; Dromey, G.)
Abstract	Constraints allow users to declare relationships among objects and let the constraint systems maintain and satisfy these relationships. Formulas have been adopted to express constraints in a wide variety of single-user applications, because of their simplicity, efficiency and manageability. The needs and benefits of supporting formula-defined constraints in collaborative environments have long been recognized. However, maintaining both constraints and consistency in the presence of concurrency in collaborative systems is a challenge. In these systems, users may concurrently define formulas, which could result in that different formulas are defined to express the same object attribute at different sites. In this article, we discuss the issues and techniques in maintaining formula-defined constraints in collaborative systems. In particular, we also proposed a method that is able to maintain both constraints and system consistency in concurrent environments based on the existing consistency maintenance approaches. This method extends the application of these approaches from collaborative systems without constraint to systems that support formulas. The proposed method has been applied to implement a collaborative Visio system, called CoVisio, which leverages single-user Microsoft Visio for multi-user collaboration. Specific issues related to CoVisio are also discussed in detail.
Starting Page	318
Ending Page	327
File Size	324886
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424413188
DOI	10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553850
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-11-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	CoVisio collaborative systems consistency maintenance formulas Maintenance engineering Application software Sun Graphics Concurrent computing Interactive systems constraint satisfaction Collaboration User interfaces Communications technology Australia
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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