The importance of collaborative systems in real-world applications has grown significantly
over the recent years. The majority of new applications are designed in a distributed fashion …

Emerging Opportunistic Networks (ON) are under intensive research and development by
many academics. However, research efforts on ON only addressed routing protocols as well …

Collaborative writing is the process of two or more people working together to create a
common document. People can be distributed in time, in place and across organizations …

Abstract Real-time Collaborative Editors (RCEs) are popular distributed applications that
permit large and dynamic groups of collaborators to share and update large multimedia …

A very special thanks goes out to my thesis director, Michaël Rusinowitch, without whose
motivation and encouragement I would not have finished my graduate career in computer …