Concurrency awareness in a P2P wiki system

Author

Alshattnawi, Sawsan ; Canals, Gerome ; Molli, Pascal

Author_Institution

Nancy Univ., Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy

fYear

2008

fDate

19-23 May 2008

Firstpage

285

Lastpage

294

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTS.2008.4543942

Filename

4543942