Title :
Concurrency awareness in a P2P wiki system
Author :
Alshattnawi, Sawsan ; Canals, Gerome ; Molli, Pascal
Author_Institution :
Nancy Univ., Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy
Abstract :
Currently, wikis are the most popular form of collaborative editors. Recently, some researches have proposed fully decentralized wikis relying on peer-to-peer networks. This new architecture subtly changes the behavior of wiki in case of concurrent changes. While traditional wikis ensure that all pages have been reviewed by a user, some pages in a P2P wiki are produced by the system through a automatic merge. To overcome this problem, this paper introduces concurrency awareness, a mechanism that makes users aware about the status of wiki pages. The particular context of a P2P wiki system makes traditional awareness mechanisms inadequate and requires the design of a new one.
Keywords :
concurrency control; information networks; peer-to-peer computing; search engines; P2P wiki system; awareness mechanisms; concurrency awareness; peer-to-peer networks; Collaboration; Concurrent computing; Context awareness; Costs; Irrigation; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Resists; Service oriented architecture; Wikipedia; Architectures and Design of Collaborative Systems; Awareness in Collaborative Systems; wiki systems;
Conference_Titel :
Collaborative Technologies and Systems, 2008. CTS 2008. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Irvine, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2248-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2249-4
DOI :
10.1109/CTS.2008.4543942
