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Undo-Based Access Control for Distributed Collaborative Editors

Abstract

When adding access control layer to a replication based Distributed Collaborative Editor (DCE), ensuring convergence to the same copy of the shared document becomes a challenging problem. We consider here an optimistic access control in the sense that temporarily access right violation is tolerated [3]. This leads to data divergence. To maintain convergence, updates violating access rights must be undone. However, undo approach may itself lead to divergence cases called undo puzzles [6]. In this paper, we address undo as the main feature in an optimistic access-control-based DCE. We also show how we can avoid several known undo puzzles and present additional ones. We propose a new generic solution for these puzzles and provide performance measurements of our undo command.

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inria-00431344 , version 1 (12-11-2009)

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Asma Cherif, Abdessamad Imine. Undo-Based Access Control for Distributed Collaborative Editors. 6th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - CDVE 2009, Sep 2009, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. pp.101-108, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-04265-2_14⟩. ⟨inria-00431344⟩
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