An Undo Framework for P2P Collaborative Editing

Stéphane Weiss; Pascal Urso; Pascal Molli

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 4th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2008, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

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An Undo Framework for P2P Collaborative Editing

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_40,
    author={St\^{e}phane Weiss and Pascal Urso and Pascal Molli},
    title={An Undo Framework for P2P Collaborative Editing},
    proceedings={Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 4th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2008, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
    keywords={Group undo P2P Collaborative Editing Operational Transformation},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_40}
}

Stéphane Weiss
Pascal Urso
Pascal Molli
Year: 2012
An Undo Framework for P2P Collaborative Editing
COLLABORATECOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_40

Stéphane Weiss¹^,*, Pascal Urso¹^,*, Pascal Molli¹^,*

1: Nancy-Université, LORIA

*Contact email: weiss@loria.fr, urso@loria.fr, molli@loria.fr

Abstract

Existing Peer to Peer (P2P) collaborative editing systems do not allow any user to undo any modification. However, in such systems, users are not aware of others’ modifications, hence, they could obtain duplicate work, conflicting modifications or malicious contents. In this paper, we propose a new undo framework called “UNO: Undo as a New Operation” in the Operational Transformation approach which does not limit the scalability of P2P algorithms. As a proof of concept, we apply our framework to build a P2P collaborative editor with undo capabilities in which any user can undo any modification.

Keywords: Group undo P2P Collaborative Editing Operational Transformation

Published: 2012-05-11

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_40