1st International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Research Article

Commutativity-based concurrency control in groupware

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651251,
        author={Rui Li and Du Li},
        title={Commutativity-based concurrency control in groupware},
        proceedings={1st International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2006},
        month={7},
        keywords={Algorithm design and analysis  Application software  Collaborative software  Collaborative work  Computer science  Concurrency control  Concurrent computing  Convergence  Delay  Human factors},
        doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651251}
    }
    
  • Rui Li
    Du Li
    Year: 2006
    Commutativity-based concurrency control in groupware
    COLLABORATECOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651251
Rui Li1, Du Li1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
*Contact email: lidu@cs.tamu.edu

Abstract

Commutativity of operations is often exploited in concurrent systems to attain high levels of concurrency. A commutativity-based concurrency control method, called operational transformation (OT), has been actively researched in groupware over the past 15 years. However, much progress can still be made on more practicable approaches to developing and proving OT algorithms. Several constraints have been proposed previously but they are generally difficult to follow and verify in practice. This paper proposes an alternative approach to address this problem. A new consistency model is defined which greatly simplifies the design and proof of OT algorithms.