Internet-scale distributed systems often replicate data at multiple geographic locations to
provide low latency and high availability, despite node and network failures. Geo-replicated …

A computer code conflict notification and resolution technique that provides a collaborative
programming environment for conflicts management is presented. The technique detects …

BACKGROUND 1. Field of the Invention Embodiments of the invention relates generally to
the? eld of data processing systems. More particularly, the embodi ment of the invention …

This paper introduces a framework for awareness support in groupware systems.
Awareness gathers the group knowledge, its activities and its overall status. Awareness …

Groupware development support should educate developers on how to design groupware
applications and foster the reuse of proven solutions. Additionally, it should foster …

Today's white-collar work becomes increasingly interactive and knowledge intensive. The
prevalence of open-plan workplace settings today and the increasingly intense, open and …

An event-based system and process for recording and play back of collaborative electronic
presentations is presented. The present system and process includes a technique for …

Loosely coupled workgroups are common in the real world, and workers in these groups are
autonomous and weakly interdependent. They have patterns of work and collaboration that …

It is common that, in a long-term asynchronous collaborative activity, groups of users engage
in occasional synchronous sessions. In this paper, we discuss the data management …

(57) ABSTRACT A property sheet system and method for managing and orga nizing
configuration information for components contained within a clustered environment. The …