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Distributed groupware systems consist of a group of users manipulating a shared object (like a text document, a filesystem, etc). Operational Transformation (OT) algorithms are applied for achieving convergence in these systems. However, the design of such algorithms is a difficult and error-prone activity, since building the correct operations for maintaining good convergence properties of the local copies requires examining a large number of situations. In this paper, we present the modelling and deductive verification of OT algorithms with algebraic specifications. We show that many OT algorithms in the literature do not satisfy convergence properties unlike what was stated by their authors.
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Imine, A., Molli, P., Oster, G., Rusinowitch, M. (2004). Deductive Verification of Distributed Groupware Systems. In: Rattray, C., Maharaj, S., Shankland, C. (eds) Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology. AMAST 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27815-3_20
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