Category: CSCW
Abstract: Development of any large system or artifact
        requires coordination of many developers who often
        work concurrently. The goal of coordination is to
        enhance, not restrict, developer productivity while
        ensuring that concurrent development activities do
        not clash with each other. The paper presents a
        formal model of concurrent development, where
        development consists of a collection of modification
        activities that change files, and merges that
        combine the changes. The notion of coordination
        consistency ensures that changes are not
        inadvertently destroyed and that changes are
        correctly propagated to subsequent modification
        activities.
Bibtype: InProceedings
Booktitle: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer
        Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '90)
Author: W. Harrison
        H. Ossher
        P. Sweeney
Month: October 7-10
Title: Coordinating concurrent development
Year: 1990
Address: Los Angeles, California
Publisher: ACM Press