Title :
Adaptive Version Clocks and the OffSync Protocol
Author :
Neumann, Christoph P. ; Wahl, Andreas M. ; Lenz, Richard
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. 6 (Data Manage.), Friedrich-Alexander Univ., Erlangen, Germany
Abstract :
The α-OffSync project offers a synchronization concept for α-Flow, an electronic process support in heterogeneous inter-institutional scenarios in healthcare. A distributed case file is provided by α-Flow to represent workflow schemas as documents which are shared coequally to content documents. α-OffSync allows the detection and resolution of global concurrent modification conflicts on process artifacts based on locally available information by using logical timestamps. Further mechanisms are included to ease the management and dynamic extension of the group of participating actors.
Keywords :
clocks; document handling; file organisation; health care; protocols; α-OffSync project; OffSync protocol; adaptive version clocks; content documents; distributed case file; dynamic extension; electronic process support; healthcare; synchronization concept; Clocks; Computer science; Medical services; Peer to peer computing; Process control; Protocols; Synchronization; Logic Clocks; Optimistic Concurrency Control; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA), 2012 IEEE 10th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Leganes
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1631-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISPA.2012.123