Abstract
Operational transformation (OT) is a concurrency control approach in multi-user collaborative groupware system. With OT, local operations do not delay and shared document could be edited by users at any time. Most of OT algorithms cannot be formally proved. Till date only two character-wise primitive operations Insert and Delete are proposed and these operations have time complexity of the order of O(|H|2) where H is the history buffer of operations. In this paper, a new algorithm for cut-paste string operation is proposed with time complexity and space complexity of the order of O(|H|). It reduces the time and space consumption in performing composite string operation—Cut-Paste. The proposed algorithm also handles overlapping and splitting of operations. A modified algorithm GSMRITFDD is also proposed that has removed all faults of existing ITDD algorithm.
Highlights
Groupware system is a multiple user system in which the operations of each user must quickly be propagated to all other shared users.Groupware system requires sharing of data, fine granularity, concurrency control and fast response times
The time complexity of transformation function ITCutPaste for cut-paste operation is same as transformation function for insert or delete ITDI/ITID
We experimentally conclude that Admissibility-Based Transformation with Strings (ABTS) consumed more time by a factor in multiple of |H| as compared to ITCutPaste
Summary
Groupware system is a multiple user system in which the operations of each user must quickly be propagated to all other shared users (e.g., multi-player game, real-time computer conferencing). Groupware system requires sharing of data, fine granularity, concurrency control and fast response times. Concurrency control protocols are used to remove inconsistency in the multi-user transactions systems such as Relational Databases, Distributed Systems and Groupware Systems. Traditional concurrency control methods such as Locking and Reversible Execution may cause the loss of some user interaction results. These methods are not suitable for distributed interactive applications which require fast local response satisfying user intentions, intention consistency and convergence. In past 15 years, OT is an acceptable method for consistency and concurrency maintenance in multi-user group editors such
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