A Reconciliation Framework to Support Cooperative Work with DSM

Collaborative editing of EMF/Ecore meta-models and models: Conflict detection, reconciliation, and merging in DiCoMEF

“…DiCoMEF lets each member of a group have his/her own local copy of shared modeling artifacts. This paper extends our previous work [10,11] by giving the formal specification of (meta)models using set constructs. It also provides a detailed description of conflict detection and reconciliation processes.…”

“…This framework has a 'lost-update' problem and we argue that the final results of an automatic reconciliation process could not reflect the intention of users. So, we proposed a distributed collaborative framework called DiCoMEF in our previous work [10,11] which frees users from being dependent on a central repository. Besides, modifications are controlled by human agents (not automatic).…”

“…DiCoMEF [10,11] is a distributed collaborative model editing framework for EMF/Ecore (meta)models where each member of a group has his/her own local copy of a (meta)model (see Fig. 1).…”

“…In this paper, we present a distributed collaborative model editing framework called DiCoMEF that ensures collaboration among DSM tools [10,11]. DiCoMEF lets each member of a group have his/her own local copy of shared modeling artifacts.…”

“…These tools give an ad-hoc environment that enables method engineers to edit and manage models and/or meta-models. Most of these metaCASE tools consider the modeling process as a single user task [10,11], however, whenever complexities of a problem increase, a diversity of users that get involved in a group increases as well [12]. Hence, there is a need for model versioning tools that support collaboration among a group of users with different scopes and skills (i.e.…”