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Seamless Synchronization for Collaborative Web Services

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Collaborative web services, which allow multiple people to work together on the same data, are becoming increasingly popular. However, current state-of-the-art frameworks for interactive client-side replication cannot handle network disruptions well, or suffer from large metadata overhead when clients are short-lived. This demonstration will show OWebSync, a generic web middleware for data synchronization in browser-based applications and interactive groupware. It offers a fine-grained data synchronization model, using state-based Conflict-free Replicated Data Types, and leverages Merkle-trees in the data model for efficient synchronization. We provide an interactive demonstration of a drawing application that workshop attendees can experiment with. We will also demonstrate the robustness in disconnected and offline settings.

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  1. imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Kristof Jannes, Bert Lagaisse & Wouter Joosen

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  1. Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Hakim Hacid

  2. Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Monther Aldwairi

  3. Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, VIC, Australia

    Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek

  4. National Research Council C.N.R., Pisa, Italy

    Marinella Petrocchi

  5. University of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France

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  6. Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Fatma Outay

  7. Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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  8. Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Lauritz Thamsen

  9. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Hai Dong

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Jannes, K., Lagaisse, B., Joosen, W. (2022). Seamless Synchronization for Collaborative Web Services. In: Hacid, H., et al. Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2021 Workshops. ICSOC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14135-5_27

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