MiCa: Lightweight and mobile collaboration across a collaborative editing service in the cloud

Self‐compressing object sequence for consistency maintenance in co‐editors

“…As depicted in Figure 2, there exist three options of OS 22 that hold the equation State (OS 22 , DS 22 )= S 22 . As Ω ab is invisible at state DS 21 , Ω e could be inserted at any position in OS 21 . In this example, option 1 is more simple and efficient than the other two options, that is, Ω e is placed between Ω $ (the left border) and Ω ab (the right border).…”

“…One of the most popular human‐centered collaborative systems is real‐time collaborative editors (co‐editors). Co‐editors support geographically dispersed users to concurrently edit shared documents at the same time and see the users' updates instantly 16‐23 . By integrating collaborative editing and cloud file storage/sharing capabilities, 24,25 co‐editors, such as Google Docs, Microsoft Office , Overleaf , have attracted hundreds of millions of over the world.…”

“…Co-editors support geographically dispersed users to concurrently edit shared documents at the same time and see the users' updates instantly. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] By integrating collaborative editing and cloud file storage/sharing capabilities, 24,25 co-editors, such as Google Docs * , Microsoft Office † , Overleaf ‡ , have attracted hundreds of millions of over the world. However, there are still a large number of editors on the Internet without collaborative editing capability, and the demand for co-editors is still huge.…”