Near real-time collaboration using Web browsers is becoming rapidly more and more
popular for many applications such as text editing, coding, sketching and others. These …

With the development of big data and cloud computing, real-time collaborative editing
systems have to face new challenges. How to support string-wise operations for smart and …

OT (Operational Transformation) was invented for supporting real-time co-editors in the late
1980s and has evolved to become core techniques widely used in today's working co …

Real-time collaborative programming is an emerging approach that supports a team of
programmers to view and edit shared source code at the same time. Each programmer can …

With the advancement of distributed computing systems, an increasing number of
collaborative systems are developed to support real-life collaborative work. As a typical …

CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) have properties desirable for large-scale
distributed systems with variable network latency or transient partitions. With CRDT, data are …

Conceptual modeling is a creative, social process driven by the views of stakeholders. In
modern, agile development–especially for continuously evolving Web applications …

In this paper, we present a comprehensive and in-depth study on convergence preservation
and avoidance in Operational Transformation (OT) systems. In this study, we discovered …

Selective undo allows users to undo any operation in the history and is considered a key
feature in collaborative applications. Operational transformation (OT) is a powerful tool for …

In this paper, we report our discovery of general transformation conditions and patterns
underlying a range of Operational Transformation (OT) systems for achieving convergence …