A Flexible Object Merging Framework

A Flexible Object Merging Framework (1994)

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TITLE	A Flexible Object Merging Framework	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Jonathan P. Munson	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR	Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Prasun Dewan	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR	Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175	user correction
ABSTRACT	The need to merge different versions of an object to a common state arises in collaborative computing due to several reasons including optimistic concurrency control, asynchronous coupling, and absence of access control. We have developed a flexible object merging framework that allows definition of the merge policy based on the particular application and the context of the collaborative activity. It performs automatic, semi-automatic, and interactive merges, supports semanticsdetermined merges, operates on objects with arbitrary structure and semantics, and allows fine-grained specification of merge policies. It is based on an existing collaborative applications framework and consists of a merge matrix,which defines merge functions and their parameters and allows definition of multiple merge policies, and a merge algorithm, which performs the merge based on the results computed by the merge functions. In conjunction with our framework we introduce a set of merge policies for several u...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1994	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	231--242	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	11 found	ParsCit 1.0