Flexible Conflict Detection and Management in Collaborative Applications

This paper presents a comprehensive model for dealing with semantic conflicts in applications, and the implementation of this model in a toolkit for collaborative systems. Conflicts are defined purely through application semantics--the set of behaviors supported by the applications--and yet can be detected and managed by the infrastructure with minimal application code. This work describes a number of novel techniques for managing conflicts, both in the area of resolution policies and user interfaces for presenting standing conflicts in application data.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: UIST
• Authors: W. Keith Edwards
• Keywords: Minimal Application Code, Semantic Conflicts, Software Engineering, Standing Conflicts, UIST 1997